PTO Opens Dallas Regional Office To Serve South Central US

The Patent and Trademark Office officially opened a new regional office in Dallas, it said in a news release Monday. The Dallas office will provide services to inventors and entrepreneurs in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas, the PTO said. Director Michelle Lee attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the final office opened in the PTO's 2012 initiative to create three additional regional centers across each continental U.S. time zone, the agency said. The Silicon Valley, California, regional office opened last month (see 1510160017).