15 U.S.C. § 648c: SBA and USPTO partnerships

development of high-quality training, including in-person or modular training sessions, for small business concerns relating to domestic and international protection of intellectual property; leveraging of training materials already developed for the education of inventors and small business concerns; and participation of a nongovernmental organization; and through electronic resources, including Internet-based webinars; and a small business development center; and the headquarters or a regional office of the USPTO. build upon several successful intellectual property and training programs aimed at small business concerns; and increase the availability of and the participation in the programs described in subparagraph (A) across the United States; and any education and training program administered by the USPTO and the SBA should be scalable so that the program is able to reach more small business concerns.” the term ‘Administrator’ means the Administrator of the SBA; the term ‘Director’ means the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO; the term ‘SBA’ means the Small Business Administration; the term ‘small business concern’ has the meaning given the term in section 3(a) of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 632(a) ); the term ‘small business development center’ means a center described in section 21 of the Small Business Act ( 15 U.S.C. 648 ); and the term ‘USPTO’ means the United States Patent and Trademark Office.”