'''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’. | '''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’. |