Patent applicants are presently encountering long pendency periods, exceeding two years on the average, before the application is assigned to an examiner and begins its journey through the examination ...

On October 9, 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced via an e-mail to its stakeholders and in a post on the Director's Form Blog that the Office had achieved its long-term goals of ...

Trademark wait times at the USPTO are at an all-time high, with the backlog being blamed variously on the pandemic, a shrinking federal government workforce or rampant fraud committed by opportunistic ...

President-elect of the EPO Alison Brimelow used the analogy of global warming to emphasize the problem of patent pendency around the world during a keynote speech in Australia at the end of January.

The pendency of cases at the Supreme Court has slightly increased during the last three months. The SC's suo motu proceedings over the delay in the elections to two provincial assemblies is one of the ...

Dani Schwartz writes: There is presently a putative split between the First and Second Departments as to whether a tenant in a leasehold dispute lacking interest in title to real property may properly ...