USPTO Timeliness Slipping: License Condition Correction Data Reveals Increasing Exam Problems

.by Dennis Crouch.The USPTO has 2 standard functionalities: (1) quality exam to guarantee treatments satisfy the asking for judicial criteria of patentability and also (2) timely and effective processing of those requests. Current records recommends the Workplace is actually battling with the secondly of these requireds, as mirrored in a vigorous uptick in License Condition Modification (PTA) awards. [Charts listed below]