USPTO Timeliness Slipping: Patent Term Change Information Presents Increasing Assessment Hold-ups

.by Dennis Crouch.The USPTO possesses pair of conventional features: (1) top quality evaluation to make sure applications fulfill the asking for statutory needs of patentability and also (2) prompt and reliable handling of those documents. Recent records recommends the Workplace is dealing with the next of these requireds, as reflected in a vigorous uptick in License Phrase Change (PTA) awards. [Charts listed below]