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

.by Dennis Crouch.The USPTO has pair of traditional functions: (1) top quality examination to make sure treatments delight the asking for statutory needs of patentability and (2) quick and also reliable processing of those requests. Latest data proposes the Workplace is actually dealing with the second of these mandates, as reflected in a sharp uptick in License Condition Change (PTA) awards. [Graphes below]