Posts Tagged: patent backlog
Farewell Brazilian Backlog: Brazilian PTO Introduces Standardized Office Action Program
The Brazilian PTO has officially introduced its longed-for strategy to solve the enduring patent backlog problem in Brazil. The plan is to reduce the patent backlog by …
Brazilian PTO Considers Automatically Granting 231,000 Patents to Get Rid of Backlog
The Brazilian Government is considering the adoption of an emergency measure to eliminate the Patent Office chronic backlog problem by automatically granting, without examination, 230,000 pending applications until 2020. …
Pre-Grant Publication – The perilous deviation from the patent bargain that causes long patent application pendencies
The fundamental patent bargain has been perilously breached by forcing publication on every application. Sound policy would have avoided upsetting the core patent bargain – disclosure upon grant …
It’s Time to Fix the Global Patent System Before It Breaks Under the Weight of New Applications
Patent offices are failing to keep up with the growth of the innovation economy and the resulting increase in patent applications. Unfortunately, the problem could easily get …
The America Invents Act on Its Fifth Anniversary: A Promise Thus Far Only Partially Fulfilled
Unfortunately, Mr. President, after five years I cannot report back that the AIA has yet ”improve[d] patent quality and help[ed] give entrepreneurs the protection and …
Kasich, Patents and the Middle Class
What Kasich doesn’t explain, however, is how he achieved a balanced budget. As part of the Kasich-Clinton deal the budget of the United States Patent and …
Will the USPTO Outreach Fix the RCE Backlog?
The problem of the RCE backlog is a function of the prosecution dynamic and lack of meaningful oversight into areas where RCEs are common and patents issue …
The David Kappos Era at the USPTO
if you ask me the Kappos legacy is not going to be the America Invents Act. The Kappos legacy will be that he managed to put the …
New Patent Fees: USPTO Exercises Fee Setting Authority
The final rules on patent fees will publish in the Federal Register on Friday, January 18, 2013. Fees are going up for most, but not as much as feared. …
Track One By the Numbers. What are you Waiting for?
The USPTO has returned to the historical philosophy that patent examiners should work cooperatively with patent applicants to identify allowable subject matter and issue patents on what …
Patent Strategy: Discovering Crucial Patent Examiner Data
What if you could have a crystal ball looking inside the United States Patent and Trademark Office to easily determine an array of statistical information related to …
Patent Filings Up Worldwide, Outpacing GDP Growth
The question, however, is whether this increased inventive activity is sustainable in light of the overwhelming backlogs faced by Patent Offices around the world. It is great …
House Republicans Oppose Adequately Funded Patent Office
Despite the fact that Congressmen Ryan and Rogers would like this to be about the Obama Administration, the fact is that Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is the …
Ranting on Congress: Not a Happy World IP Day in the US
Did World Intellectual Property Day sneak up on you again this year? How could you let that happen? At a time when the United States Congress seems …
Patent Reform in the Media and De Facto First to File
As I have repeatedly explained over and over again for the past several years, there is nothing to fear about a first to file system (see above) …
