The Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a blanket purchase agreement to Bell & Manning LLC for intellectual property services. The BPA includes several firm fixed price call contracts placed between December 2022 and January 2023 totaling approximately $550,000. Bell & Manning will draft responses, applications and related filings for a variety of domestic and international patent and trademark offices. Performance will take place in Monona, Wisconsin through March 2024.
The Forest Service manages over 193 million acres of public lands and promotes forestry practices nationwide. The BPA calls indicate the agency requires assistance developing, filing and responding to actions related to inventions and innovations in areas such as sustainable forest management, land use and facilities development. Bell & Manning will provide patent prosecution services and support the Forest Service's research and development programs and objectives as the primary land stewardship and forestry research agency.
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