Status of US Utility Patent Applications.

by Dennis Crouch The chart below shows the USPTO utility patent allowance rate broken up on a quarterly basis (using …

President Biden Wants to Put Microsofter in Charge of the Patent Office, Soon to Penalise Patent Applicants Who Don't Use Microsoft's Proprietary Formats

The tradition of GAFAM or GIAFAM inside the USPTO carries on (e.g. Kappos and Lee; Kappos lobbies for Microsoft and IBM, whereas Lee now works for Amazon/Bezos after a career at Google); it's hard to believe anymore that the USPTO exists to serve...

Life as USPTO director: three past chiefs relive their experiences

Jon Dudas, David Kappos and Andrei Iancu tell Managing IP about the good and bad of the top USPTO job and share advice with aspiring future chiefs

Counsel: USPTO should beat bad marks with new fraud bar

The office could maximise the benefits of a TTAB ruling that lowered the fraud bar to reckless disregard if it applied the same standards to non-lawyers

[Meme] 12 Years of Corporate Deplorables Running the USPTO

It’s hard to swallow the idea (myth, fiction) that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office protects the ‘small person’ when it’s run by Mr. Iancu, an old Trump associate (protecting a high-profile fraud), preceded by Mr. Kappos (Microsoft and IBM...

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Has a Deep Revolving Doors Crisis (Former Officials Cashing in as Lobbyists and Private Sector Actors)

Conflict of interest? Sure. Even worse: revolving doors. How USPTO Directors benefit from the job well after their time in the Office, occasionally lobbying for the very firms that they came from in the first place.