USPTO Timeliness Slipping: Patent Condition Adjustment Data Shows Growing Examination Hold-ups

.through Dennis Crouch.The USPTO possesses two traditional features: (1) high quality evaluation to make sure applications please the requiring lawful needs of patentability and (2) quick and reliable processing of those applications. Current data advises the Workplace is battling with the second of these directeds, as mirrored in a sharp uptick in License Term Correction (PTA) awards. [Graphes below]