Intellectual Property
Aug. 14, 2012
Patent applications in the fast lane
For a fee, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will let you to do almost anything. By Gregory A. Hopewell of Fenwick & West LLP
For a fee, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will let you to do almost anything - wait half a year to file an office action response, continue examination ad infinitum, and even consider those multiple dependent claims that are so popular elsewhere in the world. And now, the USPTO will conclude examination of your patent application within a year.
The passage of the America Invents Act in 2011 authorized the USPTO to cr...
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