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USPTO and UKIPO Announce Plan to Reduce Global Application Backlog

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

By Sarah Fendrick -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced in a March 10, 2010 press release that it has joined forces with the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) to develop a plan to reduce patent processing backlogs in both offices. The joint effort is a result of the hindrance the patent backlog is believed to have on the global economy. Specifically, in a study conducted by the London Economics, it was estimated that patent backlogs cost the global economy as much as $11.4 billion each year. In the USPTO release, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on March 15, 2010 (boomark / email).