San Jose—the most populous city in Northern California and the bureaucratic hub of Silicon Valley—has offered up office space in City Hall for the new “satellite office” of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

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On Tuesday, the USPTO announced that it would accept the city’s offer of two years of free rent as the “permanent location” for the Silicon Valley patent office. That choice makes sense as the city has been the site of famous patent cases (see: Apple v. Samsung ) in recent years. Plus, more patents originate from San Jose than anywhere else in America.

As the USPTO said in a press release:

A permanent West Coast office will enable the USPTO to help more entrepreneurs protect their intellectual property so they can attract capital, put their business plans into action, and help create more jobs. The San Jose City Hall location provides office space for patent examiners and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) judges, a robust examiner training facility, and public hearing rooms for PTAB proceedings, including its trial proceedings, which clarify the quality and certainty of a patent right and serve as a low-cost and efficient alternative to litigation in the federal court system.

Since April 2013, the USPTO has been operating farther north in Menlo Park in a temporary location. In the meantime, Silicon Valley Office Director Michelle Lee and nine PTAB judges will continue working from that location. More hires are planned in the coming months and years.