The Patent and Trademark Office Society (PTOS) is an American society of
The society publishes a monthly journal Patent & Trademark Office Society Journal or Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society.
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* [http://www.jptos.org/ Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society]
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