Extent of Patent System Slowdown Shown in New Data

Patent. - Extent of Patent System Slowdown Shown in New Data. New information obtained via record requests from the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office shows the extent of the slowdown on patent applications discreetly placed into its controversial SAWS program.

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Based on the data, gained via record requests to the patent office, the average time it takes to process a patent placed in SAWS –– short for “Sensitive Application Warning System” –– is double the time it takes for a regularly processed patent. Applications placed in the SAWS program also endured double the number of rejections as regularly processed patents.

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