Patent Office RTO Predictions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eliminating the patent office and patents would be a great to deregulate and spur the economy.

Question: do you also think Trademarks are useless and everyone should just be able to sell knockoffs with absolutely no brand protections?

Good lord some people are powerfully dumb.

Yes. Patents and trade marks are inherently anti-free market. Patents and trademarks restrict access to information and ideas. This slow and/or stifles innovation. These monopolies limit access to products, services and increase cost. Wealthy, large corporations or wealthy people use legal resources to intimidate smaller companies or people without resources and force them out of business. Let’s not forget texas instruments patent infringement. How much did that cost consumers?

Look at all the money spent on litigation, especially when "patent trolls" sue innovators for infringing on patents they have no intention of developing. Intellectual property rights is used to privatize information. Then we have the claiming of something that is in the public domain that shouldn't be owned. Remember the Yosemite National Park and Delaware North?

Yes good lord people are so powerfully dumb because they don’t want to pay you to increase cost of everything.

A patent is a legal monopoly that's granted in exchange for the inventor disclosing the information to the public. They're given the legal right to the invention for 20 years (with some extension in limited circumstances), but after that time the information/invention is dedicated to the public. Without this system the incentive to innovative would be greatly limited and far more would be kept as a trade secret, remaining unavailable to the public.

Many, many patents are held by small businesses or individual inventors who use the protection to keep their ideas from being stolen by larger corporations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is the first day back?

there was free food

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the first day back?

there was free food

Random fruit and cookies from the cafeteria?

[Anonymous]

So what has changed?

[Anonymous]

If there is a RTO for examiners, most likely a federal office as a potential location vs a main campus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If there is a RTO for examiners, most likely a federal office as a potential location vs a main campus?

very unlikely examiner are returning are back to the office. That would cause more people to panic.

[Anonymous]

Heard RIF started today at PTO. Who is getting let go?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Heard RIF started today at PTO. Who is getting let go?

Probationary employees?

[Anonymous]

Very cryptic email from my boss’s boss-clearly written by someone else-about certain but not all probationary employees. Anyone get clarity?

[Anonymous]

I hope you guys don't have to RTO. Hold the line folks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Heard RIF started today at PTO. Who is getting let go?

Probationary employees?

It was non examiner probationary employees.

[Anonymous]

From Reddit. Tbf probationary examiners are often let go for performance.

WTAF- our email. Today a small number of probationary employees separated from the agency. Patent examiners, trademark examining attorneys and Mission critical employees were not included in this action. Sincerely, Valencia Martin Wallace acting commissioner for Patents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From Reddit. Tbf probationary examiners are often let go for performance.

WTAF- our email. Today a small number of probationary employees separated from the agency. Patent examiners, trademark examining attorneys and Mission critical employees were not included in this action. Sincerely, Valencia Martin Wallace acting commissioner for Patents

Yeah this is what my boss sent, under his signature. Yet my component (PTAB) has lots of probationary non-examiners who were not let go, at least not so far. Who actually got fired?

[Anonymous]

A lot of empty offices became occupied last week.

[Anonymous]

According to Reddit, there is going to be 15% reduction. I am guessing they will target low performing gs-12 and below.