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USPTO puts tasty innovation on display
Inventive Eats: Incredible Food Innovations highlights how our breakfast cereals, sandwiches, dinner entrees, and more have been transformed by significant events, discoveries and inventions. We get the tasty details from the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, David Kappos.
Tags: Federal Drive , technology , innovation , Inventive Eats: Incredible Food Innovations , David Kappos , DoC
USPTO turns to Google for help with TMI
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has turned to Google to store 10 terabytes of bulk data. David Kappos, Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, explains.
Tags: Federal Drive , technology , Google , David Kappos , Intellectual Property , Open Government Initiative
USPTO opens up about telework success
Out of a total of approximately 5,300 PTO staffers who have both the authorization and the technical capability to telework, 91 staffers telework three days a week; 165 work two days a week from home; 2,700 who work from home one day a week; and finally 2,300 staff who are "hotelers", who do the majority of their work from their homes, and only come into PTO headquarters once a week or once every two weeks. Danette Campbell, the senior telework advisor at PTO, explains.
Tags: Federal Drive , technology , mngt , telework , Danette Campbell , best practices
GSA's Johnson is passionate about teleworking
In a world where blizzards producing 5-6 feet of snow can shut down a major metropolitan area like Washington, D.C., officials are re-thinking what it means to close the federal government for days at a time. But the new head of one agency that managed to keep going despite the blizzards says what you do as a federal worker is sometimes more important than where you do it.
Tags: mngt , P&B , teleworking , GSA , Martha Johnson , OPM , John Berry , FOSE , Casey Coleman , Max Cacas
OPM culling telework data from snow storms
During the recent February blizzards, the federal government closed for a record four and a half days. But some agencies were able to keep working, even though many of their workers were stranded in their homes by 4-foot plus snow drifts. Now, officials are taking stock of how teleworking made it possible to keep the part of the government running in spite of the weather.
Tags: P&B , mngt , best practices , GSA , telework , Max Cacas , Casey Coleman , Dannete Campbell
USPTO's Peer-to-Patent program ends; what are lessons learned?
Tags: management , technology , Peer-to-Patent program , Beth Noveck , Dr. Mark Webbink
Shifting gears in telework push
Getting fed managers to yes.
Tags: P&B , tech , Telework Exchange , telework , Steve O'Keefe , Adobe , Danette Campbell , Joe Hungate , Treasury
