USPTO Announces Accelerated Patent Issuance Timeline

Summary: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has accelerated the patent issuance timeline due to modernization efforts, which include publishing electronic patent grants (eGrants) via the USPTO’s Patent Center and eliminating redundancies. Starting May 13, the average time between the date of receipt of the Issue Notification and the Issue Date will be reduced from approximately three weeks to approximately one week....
By: Lowenstein Sandler LLP

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