USPTO Followup Meeting [Left Coast], October 19

[Carl Malamud]

From: "Owens II, John B." <john....@USPTO.GOV>
Date: October 2, 2009 6:17:31 AM PDT
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Subject: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Public Meeting on
Information Distribution Request for Information (RFI)

Greetings,
 
Due to overwhelming interest from the patent and trademark community,
the USPTO has scheduled a second public meeting to be held Monday,
October 19th from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Pacific time at the San
Francisco Public Library located at 100 Larkin Street (at Grove), San
Francisco, CA 94102-4733 in the Latino/Hispanic Community Room B.  As
with the first public meeting, the purpose is to address questions
about the Request for Information (RFI).   The full details of the
Data Dissemination RFI, along with registration information and
information from the first public meeting, are available on the
Federal Business Opportunities Web site at:
 
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=list&tab=list
 
Those parties that are interested in attending must send, no later
than Thursday, October 15, 2009, 2:00 p.m. Eastern time, the
attendee’s name, company, company address, and e-mail address to
publicdatad...@uspto.gov.  Registration will be limited to
the first 50 registrants. 
 
For directions please call (415) 557-4400. 
 
The contract officer is:
V'Anne Tugbang
Contracting Officer
Office of Procurement
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Department of Commerce
600 Dulany Street, MDE-7C07
Alexandria, VA  22313-1450
p. 571.272.6550
f.  571.273.6550
 
We look forward to seeing you.
 
Sincerely,
 
John B. Owens II
Chief Information Officer
United States Patent and Trademark Office
 

[Carl Malamud]

There was an offer on the table from Stanford University for a much
bigger space for a meeting. You can find that offer and additional
correspondence at this page:

http://public.resource.org/uspto.gov/

It appears that the USPTO was perhaps uncomfortable with the idea of a
truly public meeting, so they picked the smallest venue they could get
away with and then sent the announcement out first to their vendor
list hoping to fill the room.

Stanford's offer was from University Michael A. Keller, who would have
provided a much more logical space in the heart of Silicon Valley at
no charge to the government.