U.S. Patent Trademark Office: Transforming to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century

To help ensure that U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) is on a path to effectively achieve modernization and meet its challenges, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, State, Commerce, and Justice asked the Academy to review the agency’s structure and business processes and to provide insights on whether and how agency efforts have helped to increase patent quality and decrease patent pendency.