Patent Office Professional Association
The Patent Office Professional Association is a professional union of United States patent examiners. It was formed in 1964.
POPA represents all patent office professionals at the US Patent and Trademark Office including:
- Patent Attorneys at the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
- Non-supervisory attorneys and Congressional Affairs Specialists in the Office of External Affairs
- Petitions attorneys in the Office of Petitions
- Review Quality Assurance Specialists in the Office of Patent Quality Assurance
- Designated Training Quality Assurance Specialists
- Non-supervisory patent examiners and primary examiners
- Non-supervisory Patent Reexamination Specialists in the Central Reexamination Unit
- Patent Cooperation Treaty examiners and attorney advisors
- Certain librarians and accountants