USPTO Timeliness Slipping: Patent Phrase Correction Data Reveals Developing Exam Hold-ups

.by Dennis Crouch.The USPTO possesses 2 standard functions: (1) high quality assessment to ensure treatments delight the asking for legal criteria of patentability as well as (2) quick as well as effective processing of those requests. Latest records advises the Workplace is actually fighting with the second of these mandates, as mirrored in a vigorous uptick in License Phrase Correction (PTA) awards. [Charts below]