USPTO Timeliness Slipping: Patent Condition Modification Data Shows Growing Assessment Delays

.through Dennis Crouch.The USPTO possesses pair of conventional functionalities: (1) top quality evaluation to ensure treatments satisfy the demanding judicial needs of patentability and also (2) well-timed and also reliable handling of those requests. Current records suggests the Workplace is actually battling with the second of these directeds, as shown in a sharp uptick in License Term Correction (PTA) awards. [Charts listed below]