In the near future, when a Connecticut intellectual property lawyer has a client with an exciting new invention and needs to register a trademark or patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, who knows, maybe that process can take place in Hartford.
At least that’s what Connecticut IP lawyers hope, as bar members are lobbying federal officials who intend to open several USPTO satellite offices around the country over the next few years. A satellite office is already scheduled to open later this year in Detroit; the federal agency is in the early consideration stages for "at least two more satellite offices" in the next three years, according to an agency official.
