USPTO Timeliness Slipping: License Condition Modification Data Reveals Growing Assessment Problems

.through Dennis Crouch.The USPTO possesses 2 conventional functions: (1) high quality examination to make certain requests satisfy the requiring judicial needs of patentability as well as (2) timely and effective processing of those documents. Recent data proposes the Office is dealing with the next of these mandates, as reflected in a sharp uptick in License Condition Correction (PTA) awards. [Graphes listed below]