USPTO Timeliness Slipping: License Phrase Adjustment Data Shows Expanding Examination Hold-ups

.by Dennis Crouch.The USPTO has pair of typical features: (1) quality evaluation to make certain treatments fulfill the demanding judicial demands of patentability and also (2) quick and also efficient handling of those applications. Current information advises the Workplace is actually having a problem with the second of these mandates, as reflected in a vigorous uptick in License Term Correction (PTA) awards. [Charts below]