“Why is it taking so long to get my patent?” The answer may well be that you have a tough patent examiner. We can now see how tough an examiner is by using a Dispersion Diagram™ like the one above. A Dispersion Diagram™ presents yearly allowance rates for all of the examiners in a particular technology group at the US patent office. Individual examiners can then be highlighted to see how yours compares with others.
It’s tough to get a patent these days. In my career as both an inventor and a registered US patent agent, I’ve seen the process for getting a patent become increasingly more difficult.
“Why is it taking so long to get my patent?” The answer may well be that you have a tough patent examiner.
It’s a struggle to get a mechanical patent. In the good old days, you wrote a patent, you filed a patent, and with maybe one or two rejections from the patent examiner, you got a patent.
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