We still have a long way to go to achieve this goal. If successful, it will be the first time that the patent backlog has been greatly reduced in 10 years? Kapos said in the conference call that this meeting was also a media review of his first 13 months of work. ? I think we have made some progress, but we are also facing great challenges. We still have a lot of work to do? He said.
Even if the backlog can be successfully reduced by 6.7 percentage points, the number of new applications will increase by 4 percentage points this year. The whole process of waiting for approval, that is, the time required to process an application, is still 35.4 months, which has not changed since Cabos took office.
Engineers said that it took three to eight years for the Patent and Trademark Office to process an application, which made them very depressed and dissatisfied. Kapos said that the patent backlog and long waiting time for applications faced by the bureau? The most pressing problem? .
This week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office released an onlinedashboard, which can show the monthly work progress of the office. The dashboard shows that more than 6,000 examiners of the Patent and Trademark Office still face a backlog of 728,000 applications.
Kaposi completed a series of preliminary measures during the initial term of 13 months, including revising the performance appraisal methods for front-line managers in Patent examiners and the Bureau. The Patent and Trademark Office also revised Patent examiners's work manual and added the function of providing online comments.
In addition, the bureau also launched a pilot project to speed up the processing of patents related to climate change. Earlier this year, Cabos made a proposal. Three-track system? The patent system that caused some controversy during the public consultation period has been revised. Cabos has also started to upgrade the bureau's computer system, which has been criticized for requiring examiners to use multiple systems when dealing with prior art retrieval.
Ideal retrieval can sometimes be called integrated retrieval or joint retrieval? Cabos said. ? This is a long-term goal and a difficult problem to overcome, so we will solve it step by step. ?
The first major change is to integrate some (but not all) databases that reviewers need to access into one system. He said that this will happen sometime in 20 12 years. A former chief justice of the Court of Appeal called for the allocation of $654.38 billion from the incentive fund to the Patent and Trademark Office to upgrade computers and hire more examiners. At the same time, the bureau requires a moderate increase in the budget, increasing the budget for the 20 1 1 fiscal year to $2.322 billion. President Obama said that in his 20 12 budget proposal, he called for the realization of the budget of the Patent and Trademark Office? Considerable growth? . (compiled from)