[E-trademarks] USPTO discontinuing leases (was driving 80 miles?)

[Carl Oppedahl]

On 2/14/2025 9:41 AM, Gordon, Michael via E-trademarks wrote:
>
> The PTO recently discontinued the lease of one of the two parking 
> garages at their Alexandria HQ, the West Garage across from the 
> federal courthouse. Last year, there were signs up in the garage about 
> this, noting that the PTO would no longer be validating parking and it 
> wouldn’t be employee parking anymore, although even after that date, 
> receipts from that garage still said “USPTO” on them. Maybe they’ll 
> have to get it back.
>
Yes you are right that they discontinued the lease on one of the two 
parking garages.

And at this Alexandria HQ, the campus used to be five buildings. The 
USPTO let the lease go on two of the five buildings.  So now it is only 
three buildings.

If everybody who now works from home at the USPTO were to resume 
commuting by car to the campus every day, two things would present 
themselves:

  * there would not be anywhere close to enough parking places, and
  * there would literally not be places for most of the people to sit.

It is true that the campus is nearby to King Street Station on the 
Metro.   So some fraction of people could commute by Metro. But that 
would still not make any difference with the general challenge that 
there would not be places where everybody could sit.



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