USPTO Gets $129M Boost To Tackle Backlog

By Jessica Dye (August 11, 2010, 11:15 AM EDT) -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been given the go-ahead to bolster its $1.9 billion 2010 budget with an extra $129 million from its patent fee collections, in order to help the agency staff up as it races to clear its growing patent backlog and make further progress in reducing patent pendency times....

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