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2026 National Patent Application Drafting Competition (Results)

The NPADC is a team competition for law students to develop skills in drafting patent applications, focusing on U.S. patent law. Teams receive a hypothetical invention statement, conduct prior art searches, draft specifications and claims, and present their work to judges, including patent examiners and practitioners. For 2025, the invention was an extra-uterine system for supporting premature fetuses, indicating the complexity of tasks involved

There is no publicly available timetable for the 2027 National Patent Application Drafting Competition (NPADC) from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as of the latest available information. The USPTO typically releases detailed schedules for the NPADC closer to the competition year, often in the fall of the preceding year (e.g., October or November 2025 for the 2026 competition).

 

Thomas Jefferson was the leader in founding the United States Patent Office. Jefferson was a strong supporter of the patent system and believed that it was essential for promoting innovation and progress in the United States. As the first Secretary of State Jefferson was responsible for implementing the country’s patent system.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution reads as follows:

“The Congress shall have Power To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”

In 1790, Jefferson drafted the first Patent Act, which established the procedures for applying for and granting patents. The act also created the United States Patent Office as a government agency to oversee the patent system. Jefferson appointed the first Patent Board, which was responsible for reviewing patent applications and making recommendations to the Secretary of State.

Jefferson was deeply involved in the early development of the Patent Office and was instrumental in shaping its policies and procedures. He believed that the patent system should be accessible to all inventors, regardless of their social or economic status, and he worked to streamline the patent application process to make it more efficient and user-friendly.

In recognition of his contributions to the development of the patent system, Jefferson is often referred to as the “Father of American Innovation.”

This clause grants Congress the authority to establish a system of patents and copyrights to protect the intellectual property of inventors and authors. The purpose of this system is to encourage innovation and creativity by providing inventors and authors with a temporary monopoly on their creations, allowing them to profit from their work and invest in future projects. The clause also emphasizes the importance of promoting the progress of science and the useful arts, reflecting the belief of the founders that the development of new technologies and inventions was essential for the growth and prosperity of the United States.

Over the years, the Patent Office has played a crucial role in the development of the United States as a technological leader, granting patents for inventions ranging from the telephone and the light bulb to the airplane and the computer. Today, the Patent Office is part of the United States Department of Commerce and is responsible for examining patent applications and issuing patents to inventors and companies.

Welcome to the 2025 National Patent Application Drafting Competition!

2024 National Patent Application Drafting Competition

There Will Never Be Another You

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What is Happening to the Family, and Why?

“The family is nature’s masterpiece”

— George Santayana

 

Educated at Yale College, Somerville College, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard Medical School and Columbia Law School, Amy Wax speaks to the Buckley Institute, founded by William F. Buckley (Yale 1950). Links to National Centers at Bowling Green State University, the University of Virginia and the University of Nebraska.

Inside Higher Ed (September 24, 2024): Amy Wax Update

Overcoming the Feminization of Culture


You Might Start by Reducing the Size of Government

In popular culture:

The Anthropology of Karens

People grow up in a web of relationships that is already in place, supporting them as they grow. From the inside out, it includes parents, extended family and clan, neighborhood groups and civic associations, church, local and provincial governments and finally national government.

10 Tampa Bay

Lakeland Florida high school offers free clothes and laundry facilities. Expansion of this concept to Saturdays for all students in the district would contribute to greater utilization of square footage that is normally unused. It may also lower energy cost and contribute to “family feeling” in the district.

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Schools install laundry facilities to help students in need, improve attendance

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“Wanderin'”

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Statler

The Statler Hotel is a real, operating luxury hotel in the middle of Cornell’s Ithaca campus — and simultaneously a teaching laboratory for Cornell’s Nolan School of Hotel Administration. Cornell calls it the Ivy League’s only “teaching hotel.” Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

It is substantial: 153 guest rooms, restaurants, banquet and meeting facilities and the J. Willard Marriott Executive Education Center. Guests are ordinary paying hotel guests—alumni, parents, visiting scholars, conference attendees and others—but Cornell hospitality students work alongside professional hotel staff in actual hotel and restaurant operations. More than 200 Nolan students participate annually according to the school. Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

The history is particularly good for your hospitality thread. Cornell established its hotel program in 1922. Hotelier E. M. Statler became a major benefactor, and the original 36-room Statler Inn opened with Statler Hall in 1950. The present hotel opened in 1989 as a much larger successor. Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

And there is an especially interesting SES feature: Cornell students also operate Establishment at Statler, a public restaurant where students in the restaurant-management course apply food-service and hospitality theory in a functioning dining room. Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

For STDMi, Statler may be the ideal American example of what we were discussing this morning. The university hasn’t merely created a degree in hospitality; it has built an actual hotel into the educational settlement so that lodging, food, architecture, service, events and beauty become part of the laboratory.

Cornell’s Statler Hotel backgrounder

University Ave Pizza

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The Science Behind Brewing Beer

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Tennessee Hot Chicken

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