Do you want to know how innovators with different backgrounds come together to create new inventions and businesses? Are you ready to learn about tools and resources that can help you on your own road to success? If so, don't miss the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) free online webinar, "Together in Innovation: [...]

The fourth workshop uses exercises to help you better understand financial concepts. This session reviews sales and prices, financial risks and rewards, true startup costs, ongoing operating expenses, setting benchmarks for tracking progress, and the organization of all your financial information. Using a hands-on approach, you learn how to use our financial model to forecast [...]

What is your organization doing to show support for your small businesses? COVID caused severe small business suffering. Now entrepreneurs are bouncing back. Show your local small businesses the love they deserve. National Small Business Week is coming up and there is time to prepare fun events, programs, and announcements. Steal all the best ideas [...]

Did you know that patents offer territorial rights, meaning that there is no such thing as an international or global patent? Learn how to help protect your intellectual property (IP) in foreign jurisdictions. USPTO's International Patent Legal Administration will present considerations and options for filing foreign patent applications.

A new COVID regulation is slated to go into effect in the first quarter of 2023. This new regulation – AB-2693 – has a January 1, 2023 effective date, meaning swift and proper implementation is critical for compliance. In addition to the new regulation, business owners are also required to follow the California Department of [...]

The final workshop offers information on how to finance your small business. In this session, discussions include sources of funds, accounting, the six C's of credit, banking relations, ratio analysis, and monthly preparation and review of financial statements. A bank loan officer will give an inside view of how a banker assesses the merits of [...]

Looking for more information on using Patent Center? USPTO experts will teach participants how to use this tool to file and manage patent documents online. This presentation will feature filing application documents in DOCX format, including using Patent Center Training mode to practice filing. A list of helpful resources such as the Inventor's Assistance Center [...]

Can centering racial equity help fuel a more inclusive small business recovery? Lead to new solutions to addressing housing or workforce equity challenges in underserved communities? Join us for a Connecting Communities webinar discussing three years of learnings from the Reinventing Our Communities (ROC) Cohort Program. ROC, a national training program led by national research [...]

The Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications (OCPSC) invites you to join our virtual learning series, Learning Labs: From Discovery to Action. The topic for this meeting will be Speaking to Multicultural California: Ethnic Media as an Effective Channel. Over the course of the campaign, Vaccinate ALL 58 has partnered with Ethnic Media outlets [...]

There is bad news and good news. The bad news is despite China reversing their zero-tolerance COVID policy limiting some supply shortages, the road ahead for 2023 will likely continue to be bumpy due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, workforce shortages in the U.S., and measures to combat inflation. Manufacturing more so than other sectors has been [...]