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If you or your clients have received a first-action allowance since March'25, be sure to scrutinize the Hell out of the allowed claims to make sure they will likely be enforceable before paying the issue fee.
August 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
If you or your clients have received a first-action allowance since March'25, be sure to scrutinize the Hell out of the allowed claims to make sure they will likely be enforceable before paying the issue fee.
Trump's administration has gutted hiring, training, and quality at the USPTO, including a program meant to address pendency backlog concerns by highly awarding first-action allowances and taking away direct quality requirements for those actions - likely resulting in low-value patents.
August 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Trump's administration has gutted hiring, training, and quality at the USPTO, including a program meant to address pendency backlog concerns by highly awarding first-action allowances and taking away direct quality requirements for those actions - likely resulting in low-value patents.
Patents are valuable based on their scope and validity. Only properly and continually trained examiners held to reasonably examination quality standards can reliably get a worthy application to a valuable patent.
August 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Patents are valuable based on their scope and validity. Only properly and continually trained examiners held to reasonably examination quality standards can reliably get a worthy application to a valuable patent.
Very few patent examiners have clearance to examine patent applications related to national security (~0.01% of 10k patent examiners), and they usually end up mostly examining normal patent applications. Gutting POPA for that is like using a bazooka to kill a fly.
August 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Very few patent examiners have clearance to examine patent applications related to national security (~0.01% of 10k patent examiners), and they usually end up mostly examining normal patent applications. Gutting POPA for that is like using a bazooka to kill a fly.
The latest CBA, approved by the Biden Administration, has been revoked under an argument that the Office of the Commissioner for Patents has national security interests exempting them from federal union laws. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
Trump Nixes Patent Office, Weather Service, NASA Unions (1)
President Donald Trump nullified more government unions Thursday, expanding a March executive order that has sharply limited federal-sector collective bargaining.
news.bloomberglaw.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The latest CBA, approved by the Biden Administration, has been revoked under an argument that the Office of the Commissioner for Patents has national security interests exempting them from federal union laws. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
Talk about CRAC. That'll get their attention for a little bit.
June 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Talk about CRAC. That'll get their attention for a little bit.