By: Looming Crisis at BPAI « Inventive Step

Looming Crisis at BPAI « Inventive Step — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:25:54 +0000

[...] Although completely unsurprising, the increase in appeal filings is putting the BPAI in an impossible situation. It wasn’t too many years ago that appeals at the BPAI took 3+ years between the filing of the brief and a decision. This discouraged the filing of appeals and gave examiners greater power knowing that it was unlikely their decisions would be appealed. The BPAI did a great job of reducing its backload in recent years by issuing many decisions in less than a year. Now, however, it appears we are headed back to the days of 3+ years pendency. Presumably, the number of appeals filed will decline again when this starts to happen. [...]

By: PTO Publishes Rules Agenda for 2009 « Inventive Step

PTO Publishes Rules Agenda for 2009 « Inventive Step — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:20:01 +0000

[...] In these times when the PTO is struggling with reduced filings and reduced revenue, that they certainly won’t be reducing these fees. This sounds suspiciously like the rumor about a significant raise to the RCE fee. [...]

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