USPTO: CIO Jamie Holcombe

04/01/2021 29 min
USPTO: CIO Jamie Holcombe

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Episode Synopsis

The US Patent and Trademark Office is the world's premier registrar of intellectual property, a "single source of truth" function that might lend itself to blockchain technologies. CIO Jamie Holcombe says identity verification with blockchain might be in the future for USPTO and talks about navigating changes in policy & law when considering a distributed ledger to store patents & trademarks. Among the interesting questions: do we start with patent #1 (applicant: George Washington)?