USPTO Timeliness Slipping: License Term Change Data Reveals Growing Assessment Delays

.through Dennis Crouch.The USPTO possesses 2 typical features: (1) top quality evaluation to guarantee applications fulfill the asking for judicial demands of patentability as well as (2) prompt and also dependable processing of those applications. Current records advises the Workplace is fighting with the secondly of these requireds, as mirrored in a vigorous uptick in License Term Change (PTA) awards. [Graphes below]