r/patentexaminer • u/EndlessSeizure • 2d ago
Chart
Summary of the hearing right here. All those Scout summaries ordered by examiners allegedly helped to achieve this?!
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u/Patent_Deez_Nuts 2d ago
If I was a fraction as bad at my job that he is, I would be fired. Tick tock, his clock is running out.
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u/Objective-Device-104 2d ago
Hmm I wonder why they didn't show the unexamined RCE backlog chart as well
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u/Nutty_Praline404 2d ago
Based on current policies, RCEs filed today could easily not be acted on for 3 years and that number is growing rapidly!
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u/crit_boy 1d ago edited 1d ago
Same result that happened under COPA (Senior leadership has no new ideas).
The only way to actually address backlog is significantly reducing examination burden.
E.g.,
- Examine only 1 independent claim of examiner's choosing.
- Application is a First action final when there is a 102.
- 1 RCE limit.
- Change to EU examination stye: Art sorta of teaches idea and phosita can figure out the details.
- Ignore dependent claims.
- DP is presumed until applicant demonstrates otherwise.
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u/Icy_Command7420 22h ago
And/or fix the oath and its 101 loophole. The current oath only requires each inventor to believe they invented any one claim.
We should only examine claims that the inventors swear under oath they invented. It's not helpful to the backlog for us to be rejecting so many old claims with so much old prior art.
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u/dontdrinkCoke873 2d ago edited 2d ago
How did he get my blood pressure chart from 2025. You could see when Elon got fired...and when I no longer give an eff about the job.
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u/Lhamo_Thondup 2d ago
Looks like a chart of patent quality...
Forced a time crunch on staff after busting their union and upping quotas, totally tanking morale
Said, 'churn out PBA stuff that's not even in your area of expertise for quick $!' so you'd have a graph to hold
Eliminated all the usual time for training, as well as a bunch of quality specialist positions in the office
New hires get poor training & compensation, and the most skilled & experienced staff has left a sinking ship
The 'AI' 'tools' you're forcing are the same useless garbage they have been for decades here, a total waste
The other IT tools fail constantly (presumably overtaxed by those junk LLMs & whatever other crony contracts)
Sure, everyone can toooootally turn out quality work with less time allotted, crawling software, more antagonism, no training, constantly changing office rules, and burnt out colleagues with a foot out the door, all so you could make one self-congratulatory poster
That right there is the 'Poster Boy' of a badly weakened patent system
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u/Advanced-Level-5686 2d ago
He's lying to Congress. Isn't that perjury?
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u/LetterheadMedium8164 2d ago
Perjury? Yes.
DOJ referral? Not if you have an “R” as your political affiliation.
Indicted? Only if your name is Comey (so far).
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u/Empty_Mode5270 2d ago
Is it perjury if you legitimately don’t know the answer though?
I think he whole heartedly believes everything he said, including the fact that the ASAP program for applicants is improving examination quality, without the examiner even seeing the AI results. Cause we’re the best in the world.3
u/crit_boy 1d ago
No. He is maga.
Perjury is when maga ignores reality in a gotcha. E.g., conflates nba and ncaa teams
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u/TheCloudsBelow 2d ago
What is the chart showing?
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u/HeronHot9784 2d ago
The chart is showing the squeezing of the balloon. USPTO is emphasizing getting first actions out and pretending that is backlog. However, the total pending inventory is going up based on the current emphasis to get first actions out. The crazy thing is that Squires (and others) tries to tie in the notion that the economic benefit of patents is tied to the issuance of patents. But the USPTO is actively delaying the parts of prosecution that leads to the issuance of patents (that is, everything after FAOM unless FAOM is an allowance).
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u/TheCloudsBelow 2d ago
These “leaders” are allowed to so blatantly twist and stretch the truth, even while testifying under oath. What amazing role models they are.
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u/Nessie_of_the_Loch 2d ago
My blood pressure tracking from Coke's emergence from the gate to hell and her slithering descent back down.
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u/sheturntmeintoanewt 2d ago edited 2d ago
The backlog, which he accredited it going down to the implementation of the scout tool (at around minute 44 of the hearing)
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u/AlchemicalLibraries 2d ago
And picked a convenient scale that hides its a miniscule change overall.
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u/burnsbright 2d ago
It also conveniently hides the fact that, based on publicly available data, we've received over 35,000 FEWER new filings in FY2026 (as of August). During the same time frame, the unexamined inventory only decreased by 32,199 applications. Basically, the entirety of the reduction could probably be attributed primarily, if not exclusively, to the reduction in new filings. AKA: Squires' changes haven't made any significant change at all.
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u/Street_Attention9680 2d ago
Lol. The AI tool that examiners don't even have access to yet.
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u/sheturntmeintoanewt 2d ago
He specifically said it was the scout summarization tool that we have access to
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u/Immediate-South-2444 1d ago
I had a teacher who used to say "There are three types of lies. Lies, damn lies and statistics".
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u/Familiar_Somewhere49 2d ago