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USPTO News: USPTO Announces "Highest Performance Levels in Agency?s History" in 2008

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released its FY 2008 Performance and Accountability Report yesterday and announced that the Office had for the first time "met 100 percent of its Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) goals." According to the Patent Office, the year-end numbers "demonstrate the agency?s commitment to sustaining high performance in the quality and timely examination of patent and trademark applications." The Performance and Accountability Report indicates that the Office examined 448,003 applications in 2008 -- the highest number of applications the Office has ever examined in a year (the Office's previous high...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on November 19, 2008 (boomark / email).