Effort to speed patents, new Silicon Valley office

July 3, 2012

By San Francisco Chronicle

Lots of high-fiving in Silicon Valley now that it's getting its very own U.S. patent office.

It's not clear when - or precisely where - the office will open, but "we want to move forward as quickly as possible," said acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank, who said Silicon Valley, as reported in Monday's Chronicle, is one of four new satellite locations chosen to help speed up America's logjammed patent-granting process.

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