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USPTO Launches Interactive Patent Pendency Model

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

By Sarah Fendrick -- On December 18, 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced the launch of an interactive patent pendency model (PPM). The PPM enables users to see how overall application pendency is affected by the number of examiner hires per year, the amount of overtime worked, and patent filing levels. In one example, the model shows that an additional 1,000 examiners hired between 2010-2012 could reduce the backlog from 719,000 to just over 470,000 by the end of 2012. Alternatively, if no new examiners were hired and no overtime was allowed, the current backlog could increase to...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on December 28, 2009 (boomark / email).