USPTO Timeliness Slipping: Patent Phrase Modification Information Reveals Increasing Exam Delays

.through Dennis Crouch.The USPTO possesses pair of standard features: (1) high quality exam to make sure uses delight the asking for judicial demands of patentability and (2) prompt as well as efficient handling of those requests. Recent information advises the Office is actually having a problem with the secondly of these requireds, as shown in a vigorous uptick in License Term Correction (PTA) honors. [Graphes listed below]