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

.through Dennis Crouch.The USPTO has 2 conventional functions: (1) top quality examination to ensure applications please the asking for statutory demands of patentability and also (2) quick as well as effective processing of those requests. Recent records advises the Office is actually dealing with the next of these requireds, as demonstrated in a sharp uptick in License Condition Modification (PTA) awards. [Graphes listed below]