by Dennis Crouch

The USPTO has released a chart showing the number of patent applications filed each weekday up through March 19, 2013. These results are roughly parallel, but slighly less amplified to the the 1995 changeover from a patent term of 17-years-from-issuance to 20-years-from-filing.
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