USPTO Timeliness Slipping: Patent Phrase Adjustment Data Presents Developing Evaluation Problems

.by Dennis Crouch.The USPTO possesses 2 traditional functionalities: (1) quality examination to guarantee treatments please the demanding judicial demands of patentability and also (2) timely and also effective handling of those requests. Recent information proposes the Office is dealing with the secondly of these requireds, as shown in a vigorous uptick in Patent Term Change (PTA) awards. [Graphes listed below]