USPTO Timeliness Slipping: Patent Term Modification Information Reveals Growing Evaluation Delays

.through Dennis Crouch.The USPTO has pair of conventional functionalities: (1) top quality assessment to make certain applications satisfy the requiring legal demands of patentability as well as (2) timely and also efficient processing of those applications. Current data suggests the Office is actually having a hard time the secondly of these requireds, as shown in a sharp uptick in License Condition Change (PTA) honors. [Graphes listed below]