Congratulations to the finalists of the 2026 National Patent Application Drafting Competition

Five teams are advancing to the upcoming national round on April 17.

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. USPTO Alert Congratulations to the finalists of the 2026 National Patent Application Drafting Competition More than 45 teams competed at the regional rounds of the National Patent Application Drafting Competition (NPADC), with five teams advancing to the upcoming national round at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, on April 17. The competition gives law students the opportunity to develop patent prosecution skills by applying legal principles to a hypothetical invention scenario.   Congratulations to the 2026 NPADC regional round finalists:  Harvard Law School: James Babineau (coach), Louis Tompros (coach), Austin Glennon, Yi Qu, Rosemary Wang, and Andy Xu   Mitchell Hamline School of Law: Peter Heinonen (coach), Eric Phillips (coach), Haley Beann, Scott Dombroski, Samuel Fandel, and Justin Johnson   University of Wisconsin Law School: Theodore Lester (coach), Brent Brunner and Jack Michaud   University of California, Berkeley School of Law: Michael Schallop (coach), Jeff Chen, Christopher Yee, Maddison Konway, and Michael Yang   Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law: William Kehoe (coach), Alexander Eisenberg, Molly Moore, Bennington Opdahl, and Vanessa Wagner  We look forward to seeing the next generation of patent professionals compete at the USPTO. To learn more about the competition, please visit the NPADC page on the USPTO website.   ​  ​      ​    ​  Having trouble accessing links in this email? Your email server security software may be altering the links. Contact your IT or email administrator and ask them to "allow-list" links-1.govdelivery.com and links-2.govdelivery.com to ensure you can access all content in this communication. Stay connected with the USPTO by subscribing to regular email updates. Visit our subscription center at www.uspto.gov/subscribe to update or change your email preferences. This email was sent from an unmonitored mailbox. To contact us, please visit our website www.uspto.gov/about/contacts. To ensure that you continue to receive our news and notices, please modify your email filters to allow mail from subscriptioncenter@subscriptions.uspto.gov.

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