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'''USPTO''' is the abbreviation for '''United States Patent and Trademark Office'''. It is the Federal agency which looks after granting US patents as well as registration of trademarks. The USPTO works in accordance of the mandate of the Article I, section 8, clause 8 of the Constitution that the Executive Branch ‘promote the progress of the useful arts and science by protecting the limited times to inventors the entire right of their discoveries’.

The '''United States Patent and Trademark Office''' ('''USPTO''') is the federal agency that grants US patents and trademarks. The USPTO works in accordance with US Consitution mandate Article I, section 8, clause 8, which states that the Executive Branch shall 'promote the progress of the useful arts and science by protecting the limited times to inventors the entire right of their discoveries.'

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