USPTO Timeliness Slipping: Patent Phrase Adjustment Information Shows Expanding Assessment Delays

.through Dennis Crouch.The USPTO possesses two conventional functionalities: (1) quality assessment to guarantee treatments please the demanding legal criteria of patentability as well as (2) quick as well as dependable processing of those documents. Recent data recommends the Office is actually dealing with the secondly of these mandates, as mirrored in a vigorous uptick in License Phrase Adjustment (PTA) honors. [Charts listed below]