Patents: Information about the Publication Provisions of the American Inventors Protection Act : Report to Congressional CommitteesGAO, 2004 - 16 lappuses |
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25 percent According to USPTO Accounting Office American Inventors Protection analysis of USPTO applicant intends applicants certified application was abandoned applications USPTO received approximately 117,000 applications exist between published filed abroad filed by inventors filing and abandonment filing with USPTO found four differences GAO analysis GAO's information needed intend to file invention without approval Inventors Protection Act inventors qualifying median length Mittal needed to determine November 29 number of applications Patent and Trademark patent applications filed patent applications USPTO patent attorneys patents issued pending percent of patent provide information provide the information publish the application published 18 months published and unpublished published applications published patent applications qualifying as large qualifying as small Ranking Minority Member received between November remaining 450,000 applications request rescind their certification seek patent protection small entities U.S. and abroad United unpublished patent USPTO data USPTO issued patents USPTO provided technical USPTO published USPTO's database utility patents
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3. lappuse - ... agency officials knowledgeable about the data. We determined that the data were sufficiently reliable for the purpose of this audit.
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3. lappuse - April 2004 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. 7An application that has been declared abandoned is no longer pending. The most common reason for abandonment...