USPTO Timeliness Slipping: License Term Change Information Presents Increasing Examination Hold-ups

.through Dennis Crouch.The USPTO possesses pair of conventional features: (1) premium assessment to ensure applications satisfy the requiring legal needs of patentability and also (2) prompt and reliable processing of those documents. Latest information advises the Workplace is actually having a hard time the second of these requireds, as demonstrated in a vigorous uptick in License Term Correction (PTA) honors. [Charts below]