USPTO Announces That It Has Turned the Corner on Unexamined Application Backlog

In a press release issued last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that for the first time in nearly a decade, the number of first Office actions that the USPTO has issued during the fiscal year is exceeding the number of new applications that are being filed. The Office noted that as of April 6, the number of unexamined U.S. patent applications had dropped to 776,995...... By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP