Posts Tagged: IG
The Inspector General’s Report Alleging PTO Examiner Time and Attendance Abuse Has No Merit
On August 31, 2016, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) released a report titled Investigative Report on Analysis of Patent …
Hearing on Examiner Fraud a Big, Fat Nothing Burger
Prepared statements released in advance of the hearing talked tough, but that was pretty much it. Insofar as getting to the root of the problems identified in …
House Judiciary subcommittee questions Lee on preventing time and attendance abuse at USPTO
“My team and I do not tolerate time and attendance abuse,” Lee told the subcommittee. While she did note that the USPTO had taken disciplinary actions against …
Biased Report Chastises USPTO for Insufficient Quality Control
A fair treatment of the issue of patent quality would have necessarily considered those applicants that were wrongfully denied, as well as the extraordinary wait one must …
