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USPTO Budget Request for FY 2011 and Perspectives from the Patent Community

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Christopher P. Singer -- On February 1, 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a press release announcing President Obama's $2.3 billion budget request for the USPTO for fiscal year 2011. According to the statement, the amount of the budget request is intended to support and achieve the strategic objectives of the five-year plan for the USPTO as mapped out by Director Kappos and Commerce Secretary Locke. Specific goals include reducing application pendency and the existing application backlog, improving patent quality, enhancing IP protection and enforcement, and upgrading the Office's IT infrastructure and tools in order to achieve...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 08, 2010 (boomark / email).