USPTO Timeliness Slipping: License Phrase Change Data Presents Expanding Examination Hold-ups

.by Dennis Crouch.The USPTO possesses 2 traditional functions: (1) premium exam to make sure treatments please the demanding legal criteria of patentability and also (2) timely and also effective handling of those requests. Recent data recommends the Workplace is actually fighting with the second of these mandates, as shown in a vigorous uptick in License Term Correction (PTA) honors. [Graphes below]