The
Denver branch of the U.S. Commerce Department's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) officially opened June 30. To commemorate its opening, the
Denver Public Library (DPL) is hosting an exhibit covering prolific inventor Steve Jobs. The exhibit,
The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs: Art and Technology that Changed the World, shows off 300 of the 317 patents issued to the late CEO of Apple.
It looks like a collection of iPhones fit for a blue whale with a yen for technology. "It's pretty big," explains Frank Wilmot, a senior librarian with DPL's Reference Services. "It's about eight feet tall and 20 yards long," he says. The display is housed in the DPL's Central Library's Schlessman Hall through Sept. 22.
Don't expect to make any jumbo-sized calls on them, all but one are static displays, Wilmot says. "The only thing that changes is the slideshow at one end of it." The slide show displays some of the trademarks Jobs patented.
The new patent office, housed in the Byron G. Rogers Federal Building, is the first federal patent office west of the Mississippi. It's anticipated to create 120 direct positions, generate $440 million in Colorado during its first five years in operation.
The Denver Public library is a designated Patent & Trademark Resource Center (PTRC), which provides inventors and patent lawyers, among others, a valuable resource for investigating patents including access to USPTO Web-based Search Systems and PubWEST database.
Wilmot says
John Posthumus, a Denver-based patent attorney, worked with
Rocky Mountain IP Collective,
Invent Now, Inc. and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to bring the exhibit to Denver.
Contact Confluence Denver Innovation & Jobs News Editor Chris Meehan with tips and leads for future stories at chris@confluence-denver.com.
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