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Researchers at the IP Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) have a recent paper on pendency at the various patent offices. Professors Jensen, Palangkaraya and Webster looked at almost 10,000 international patent application families filed in the early 1990's and studied how they fared in the USPTO, EPO, JPO and APO. When examining the same applications, the USPTO had the shortest pendency. The study also shows that many applicants would take advantage of deferred examination if allowed in the US. [Read the Paper]

    

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Comments

[Haj]

What happened to Patent Docs?

[Just an ordinary inventor(TM)]

Dear Follow Up, e6k and nodoghere,

Please see my reply to your comments on this link:
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/10/nonobvious-yet.html#comment-134808303

Also, please consider these comments I made:
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/10/pto-fees.html#comment-134571641
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/10/pto-fees.html#comment-134283631

Other arguments are addressed starting on this link and throughout the thread titled “Patent Reform 2008: (fixing constitutional errors)”:
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/08/patent-reform-2.html#comment-124978746

[Just an ordinary inventor(TM)]

Follow Up’s comment is on this link:
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/10/nonobvious-yet.html#comment-134637161

e6k’s comment is on this link:
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/10/nonobvious-yet.html#comment-134794029

nodoghere’s comment is on this link:
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/10/pto-fees.html#comment-134812741

[Paul F. Morgan]

"Averages pendencies" from "early 1990's" filed applications are very obsolete data.

[Kevin E. Noonan]

Patent Docs is at www.patentdocs.typepad.com. Sorry for any inconvenience.

[hmm]

It might be interesting to see how many of a number of applications granted by the JPO are granted by the USPTO, APO, and EPO, and so on...