Twenty-Five Years with the PTOS

[ndrosen]

Wednesday, there was a luncheon meeting of a select fraction the Patent and Trademark Office Society, including your humble servant. The lucky attendees were people who have been members for twenty-five years or more, which includes your humble servant. I spoke with three longtime friends or acquaintances who also qualified. In addition to being fed, we were given plaques commemorating our long-term membership, and new membership cards identifying us as 25 year members.

Comments

[thewayne]

Congratulations!

I get a free look at one of my credit reports through my bank. It thinks that I still work at the Arizona government agency that I started at in the late '80s, which I left in '92. That would have me with 36 years of service, or nigh about.

[warriorsavant]

Congrats. BTW: do you enjoy doing it?

[ndrosen]

Examining patent applications? It has its points, but sometimes it gets dull and frustrating. Attending PTOS annual meetings? Well, doing so gets me out of my own office for a while, and pre-Trump, we were allowed to write off the time spent attending.

Perhaps I should mention that being a member of the Patent and Trademark Office Society is not the same as being a Patent Office employee. You can work there and not join, but many people do pay a dollar per biweek in dues, and participate in Society activities, at least minimally.

[selenite0]

Congrats on your determination and/or stubbornness!