SAN JOSE — The ribbon was several sheets of metal. The scissors, bolt cutters. And when the ribbon hit the floor Thursday, Silicon Valley finally had a permanent regional shop for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The regional office, set inside San Jose City Hall, covers three floors. It will employ 80 patent examiners and has 21 judges as of now. Twenty examiners are starting on Monday and, after a four-month training process, plus a six-week trial run with real patents, several more will be added. “With the passing of the patent bill, we were excited to get [the patent process] out of Alexandria, closer to the inventors,” said Representative Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, referring to the America Invents Act that President Obama signed into law in 2011. “I was kind of surprised that the first office went to Detroit. Go figure.”
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