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Perspective

Oct. 13, 2009

Counting (On) Improvements

Patrick Jewik of Townsend and Townsend and Crew lays out the new 'count' system that will measure patent examiner productivity.

PATENTS

By Patrick Jewik

On Sept. 30, 2009, under the leadership of the new Commissioner for Patents, David Kappos, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced important changes to the decades old "count" system that is currently used to measure the productivity of its patent examiners. The changes are expected to improve the quality of the examination process and decrease the pendency and backlog of the patent applications in the USPTO. <...

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