Bloomberg Law is reporting that President Trump has issued a statement purporting to de-recognize the USPTOUnited States Patent and Trademark Office. See also PTO. examiner’s union, claiming that the primary purpose of the USPTOUnited States Patent and Trademark Office. See also PTO. is national security. When you pile de-recognition on top of the destruction of the PTABPatent Trial and Appeal Board. Reviews adverse decisions of examiners on written appeals of applicants and appeals of reexaminations, and conducts inter partes reviews and post-grant reviews. The Board also continues to decide patent interferences, as it was known as the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) before the AIA., the general disdain between the examiner corps and senior leadership, USPTOUnited States Patent and Trademark Office. See also PTO. management’s emphasis on production quantity over quality, and the attempts to remove telework despite the USPTO’s long history of allowing examiners to work remotely, it’s hard to see how this will do anything other than cripple the agency that’s directed to support American innovation.
Secretary of Commerce Lutnick has claimed that, for the first time, Commerce is led by someone who “understands the Patent Office” and that inventors have a friend in the Department.
With friends like Director Stewart and Secretary Lutnick doing their best to make the PTOPatent and Trademark Office, informally used interchangeably with USPTO. worse in every facet of its work, who needs enemies?
