The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently launched an official page on Facebook, which can be found at www.facebook.com/uspto.gov.

David Kappos, the USPTO’s director, stated that he is “confident [the USPTO’s] Facebook presence will complement the USPTO Web site as a means of communicating and connecting with the public and [with the USPTO’s] stakeholders in the intellectual property community. With more than 400 million people on Facebook, [the USPTO] knew it was an important place for [it] to be.”