Dennis Crouch's Patently-O: 1 new topics, including “USPTO Grants and Applications Both Down (Slightly) for FY2015”

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USPTO Grants and Applications Both Down (Slightly) for FY2015 Posted: 26 May 2015 01:29 AM PDT I am predicting that US patent grants will fall in Fiscal Year 2015.  The chart above shows that the expected numbers through September 2015 will likely be slightly below the all-time high of 300,000+ utility patents issued in FY2014.  The expected return of 298,000 is only 2% below 2014 numbers but remains almost double the output throughout the first decade of this millennium. For each of the past five years, the USPTO has set a new record for number of patents granted. At the most recent PPAC meeting, the USPTO also predicted a fall in utility patent application filings of about 2% for FY2015.

Status of AIA Applications Posted: 25 May 2015 05:43 AM PDT Some applicants have asked about the current status of their AIA applications.  The chart above shows the current status of a sample of about 8,000 published patent applications claiming post-AIA status.*  Because of the backlog of PTAB appeals, it will likely be 2017 before we start seeing substantive decisions on the merits of AIA appeals. About 7% of recently issued patents claim post-AIA status. * A patent application falls under the America Invents Act (AIA), if it ever included a claim whose earliest effective filing date (counting priority claims) is on or after March 16 2013.  This automatically includes all applications filed after the March 2013 deadline that do not claim priority to any earlier applications. Applications filed before the March 2013 date are all pre-AIA because the new-matter restriction would require that all claims be associated with that pre-AIA filing date.  In the middle are applications filed after the March 2013 date but that claim priority to a pre-AIA application.  For those bridge applications, the patent applicants have been initially asked to self-determine whether their applications are considered pre- or post-AIA.

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