Patent Reform Passes but Relief for Examiner Corps is Still Pending as USPTO Churns through Staff

Brinks’ Review of Staffing Realities Uncovers Troubling Trends and Statistics Ann Arbor, MI (PRWEB) September 20, 2011 Mike Gzybowski and Brad Smith, attorneys with the Ann Arbor office of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the U.S., have done a close review of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) staffing levels and the results are sobering, tempering the optimism that is accompanying the America Invents Act just signed into law by President Obama. Patent filings have nearly tripled since 1990 and in an increasingly global econ
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