USPTO Timeliness Slipping: Patent Condition Adjustment Information Reveals Increasing Examination Delays

.through Dennis Crouch.The USPTO has 2 typical functions: (1) quality assessment to ensure uses delight the demanding judicial requirements of patentability and (2) prompt as well as effective handling of those applications. Recent data recommends the Workplace is having a hard time the second of these requireds, as demonstrated in a vigorous uptick in License Term Change (PTA) awards. [Graphes below]