POPA proposal on "hours spent examining a patent application"
The November 2007 newsletter of POPA notes that POPA asked Congress to legislate a direct allocation of time for patent examination. The formula was relatively simple. The hours allocated would be (average filing fee per application)/(average hourly salary of examiner) which would give one average hours per application. [See newsletter page 2, first column]
The basic fixed fee (large entity) for filing is roughly $1030.00. See IPBiz, Fee Structure at the USPTO and also http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee2007september30.htm.
Go backwards for a minute, one notes that roughly 20 hours are spent (on average) examining one application. This works out to $50/hour. That's around $100,000 per year salary. If the average salary is less (or average fees more), then there would be an increase in examination time per application under the POPA proposal.
The basic fixed fee (large entity) for filing is roughly $1030.00. See IPBiz, Fee Structure at the USPTO and also http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee2007september30.htm.
Go backwards for a minute, one notes that roughly 20 hours are spent (on average) examining one application. This works out to $50/hour. That's around $100,000 per year salary. If the average salary is less (or average fees more), then there would be an increase in examination time per application under the POPA proposal.
posted by Lawrence B. Ebert at 11:05 AM
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Please quote the part of the POPA newsletter that you are referring to. I can't find that part.
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