Patent pending.

• Position: DRAWING CONCLUSIONS

The much-anticipated satellite branch of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is slated to open in Denver on June 30, and the USPTO says it is hiring judges "as qualified candidates become available." It is also recruiting patent examiners and posting job openings at usajobs.gov. The Denver office has been operating temporarily out of the Denver Federal Center with a staff of patent trial and appeal-board judges whose main job is helping reduce the inventory of trial and...