USPTO Timeliness Slipping: License Condition Adjustment Data Reveals Increasing Exam Hold-ups

.through Dennis Crouch.The USPTO has pair of traditional functionalities: (1) high quality assessment to guarantee treatments satisfy the requiring legal criteria of patentability and also (2) timely as well as efficient processing of those documents. Current information recommends the Workplace is actually having a problem with the second of these mandates, as demonstrated in a vigorous uptick in License Term Adjustment (PTA) awards. [Charts listed below]