Category: UMA News
Fall Scuttlebutt 2025
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UMA bids farewell to Executive Sponsor
The USPTO Military Association (UMA) gathered to express appreciation and bid farewell to Fred Steckler, former agency Chief Administrative Officer and UMA Executive Sponsor, on April 2. The UMA was f... Read More
USPTO awarded two veteran-friendly designations
It was apt timing that during the month of Veterans Day, the USPTO was awarded two veteran-friendly designations. First, the agency was named a 2024 U.S. Veterans Magazine Top Veteran-Friendly Governm... Read More
UMA hosts Veterans Day celebration
Our USPTO Military Association (UMA) hosted a Veterans Day program at the Alexandria campus on November 7th to honor America’s veterans for their willingness to serve and make sacrifices for the nat... Read More
UMA scholarship awarded to USPTO colleague’s son
The USPTO Military Association is pleased to announce a scholarship in the amount of $1,000 was awarded to Ethan Pwu, son of patent examinerJeffrey Pwu. Upon learning of the award, Ethan sent the boar... Read More
UMA highlights colleagues on Citizenship Day
In September, the USPTO Military Association (UMA) celebrated our colleagues who made the decision to become U.S. citizens as well as those who served in the Air Force. At the Citizenship Day panel, h... Read More
UMA members represent at Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
UMA members John Schneider, left, and Eric Atkisson, right, attended the 143rd National Encampment of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) in Lexington, Kentucky, August 1-4. Organized ... Read More
The history of Memorial Day
“That Nation which respects and honors its dead shall [for]ever be respected and honored itself.”1– Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Burke Whitman, 1868 Every year on the last Monday in May, Ame... Read More
“My experience as a military child”: featuring Ephraim Blair
April is the month of the military child, which makes it an appropriate time to share my personal experience. Being a military child has impacted my life in innumerable ways and has shaped who I am. M... Read More
UMA presents Women Veterans Entrepreneurs Panel
On March 25, the USPTO Military Association hosted a “We Can Do It! Women Veteran Entrepreneurs” panel discussion at the Alexandria campus. The showcase was an inspiring display of experti... Read More