The USPTO announced a pilot program that will give small entity inventors with two or more pending patent applications greater control over the priority in which their applications are examined, but at a cost.
The new program, announced by Undersecretary David Kappos during the 14th Annual Independent Inventors Conference on November 5-6, aims to reduce the backlog of unexamined patent applications by giving accelerated status to a pending patent application in exchange for the inventor abandoning a pending but unexamined application. The start date of the program will be announced in the near future.
More information on the program can be found on the USPTO website by clicking here.
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