Announcements

11/27/23

Join the PTOS Board of Directors! Turn in your nominating petition form between Nov 27th-Dec 8th and your name will be placed on the ballot for the 2024 election. Nominations will be accepted for the following positions: Positions for which all PTOS members are eligible: President Vice President Secretary Administrator Treasurer At Large Representative (10 positions available) Virginia HQ / Hoteling Representative Positions (All members eligible except those listed in PALM as non-hotelers having a physical office at one of the four USPTO Regional Offices. Member must work within the respective business unit): TC 1600, 1700/2900, 2100, 2400, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3700 (2 from each – 16 total positions) OCFO / OCAO / OCIO / OPIM (1 position) Trademarks (2 positions) Office of the Director / PTAB / Office of the General Counsel /Office of Policy & International Affairs (1 position) OPLA/OPQA/All others not specified (1 position) – Includes Office of the Commissioner, CRU, others Regional Office Representative Positions (All members eligible, but they must be nominated by members who live within a 50-mile radius of the respective Regional Office. Members may not submit petitions for both a Regional Rep position and Virginia HQ /Hoteling Rep position): Midwest Regional Office (1 position) Rocky Mountain Regional Office (1 position) Silicon Valley Regional Office (1 position) Texas Regional Office (1 position) Visit http://www.ptos.org/committees/election/2024_election.html to get your nominating petition form and for guidelines on obtaining signatures. Completed forms must be submitted to nominations@ptos.org by 3:00PM E.T. on Friday Dec 8, 2023 While you may use USPTO email to collect nomination signatures (see guidelines at http://www.ptos.org/committees/election/2024_election.html). USPTO email may not be used for campaigning. Violations of election bylaws can be confidentially reported to the Election Committee at evote@ptos.org. You may submit campaign material (e.g. a flyer or a short bio with information about yourself, your history of service with PTOS, and how you envision serving the Society while in office) along with your petition form. Your material will be posted on the Election Committee page of the PTOS website. Campaign material will be accepted for posting until 3:00 PM E.T. on Thursday Dec 21, 2023. Voting will take place from Jan 9th-11th, 2024.

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