Intellectual Property
Jun. 5, 2002
Plan Calls for Outsourcing Patent Searches
SAN FRANCISCO - Burdened with a huge backlog and with funding problems, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Monday released an ambitious plan to reduce the wait for processing applications at the cost of higher fees for applicants.
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