USPTO Timeliness Slipping: Patent Phrase Adjustment Information Reveals Increasing Examination Problems

.by Dennis Crouch.The USPTO has 2 standard functionalities: (1) top quality assessment to guarantee treatments fulfill the demanding legal demands of patentability and (2) quick and also effective handling of those requests. Current data proposes the Office is actually fighting with the next of these directeds, as shown in a sharp uptick in License Phrase Change (PTA) honors. [Charts below]