The USPTO receives more applications today than it ever has before. What happens to those applications? Patent … available, because the law prevented anyone from every finding out what happened to patent applications that did not ultimately …

. Using administrative data on successful and unsuccessful patent applications submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office …

The impacts of two recent changes in US patent policy depend on the length of time it takes for an invention to go … debates. We use data on U.S. patent applications and grants to determine the factors influencing the length of the patent … examination process. We augment this analysis with interviews of patent examiners, leading to a better understanding of the …