USPTO Timeliness Slipping: Patent Term Change Data Shows Growing Examination Problems

.by Dennis Crouch.The USPTO possesses 2 standard functions: (1) quality examination to ensure uses delight the requiring judicial criteria of patentability and (2) timely and also dependable processing of those documents. Recent records proposes the Workplace is actually having a problem with the next of these directeds, as reflected in a vigorous uptick in License Condition Correction (PTA) awards. [Graphes below]