USPTO Timeliness Slipping: Patent Term Change Data Presents Increasing Evaluation Hold-ups

.through Dennis Crouch.The USPTO has 2 traditional functions: (1) high quality evaluation to make certain requests fulfill the requiring judicial requirements of patentability and (2) well-timed and dependable handling of those applications. Recent information advises the Office is actually having a hard time the next of these mandates, as shown in a sharp uptick in License Condition Adjustment (PTA) honors. [Graphes listed below]