USPTO Timeliness Slipping: Patent Condition Change Data Reveals Growing Evaluation Hold-ups

.through Dennis Crouch.The USPTO has pair of standard functionalities: (1) top quality examination to make certain requests fulfill the demanding legal criteria of patentability as well as (2) quick as well as reliable processing of those requests. Recent records proposes the Office is actually fighting with the next of these directeds, as mirrored in a vigorous uptick in License Condition Adjustment (PTA) honors. [Charts below]