Turoski on Promoting Diversity of Patent Practitioners

This is not particularly relevant to patent remedies, but I wanted to take the opportunity nonetheless to mention some recent work by my colleague Professor Christopher Turoski, who heads our Master of Science in Patent Law Program at the University of Minnesota Law School.  Professor Turoski recently filed a comment in response to the USPTO's Request for Comments on the National Strategy for Expanding American Innovation, 85 Fed. Reg. 83,903, 83,906 (Dec. 23, 2020) [Docket No. PTO-P-2020-0057], specifically to the question: “What are ways of promoting diversity in the corps of intellectual property attorneys and agents who represent innovators?” The comment recommends increasing the diversity of patent practitioners by (i) expanding the pipeline of students who aspire to become patent practitioners, and (ii) removing systemic barriers these students face at the USPTO.  Professor Turoski also has posted a related paper on ssrn titled Trade Secrets to Promoting Diversity of Patent Practitioners.  Here is a link to the paper, and here is the abstract:

This article responds to the following question presented by the National Strategy for Expanding American Innovation: “What are ways of promoting diversity in the corps of intellectual property attorneys and agents who represent innovators?” The article recommends increasing the diversity of patent practitioners by (i) expanding the pipeline of students who aspire to become patent practitioners, and (ii) removing systemic barriers these students face at the USPTO.

For further information, see here.