Anonymous
Post 03/14/2025 17:18     Subject: Patent Office RTO Predictions
According to Reddit, there is going to be 15% reduction. I am guessing they will target low performing gs-12 and below.
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2025 18:51     Subject: Patent Office RTO Predictions
A lot of empty offices became occupied last week.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2025 17:25     Subject: Patent Office RTO Predictions
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
Post 02/27/2025 17:21     Subject: Patent Office RTO Predictions
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
Post 02/27/2025 17:12     Subject: Patent Office RTO Predictions
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Heard RIF started today at PTO. Who is getting let go?


Probationary employees?


It was non examiner probationary employees.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2025 17:09     Subject: Patent Office RTO Predictions
I hope you guys don't have to RTO. Hold the line folks!
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2025 17:08     Subject: Patent Office RTO Predictions
Very cryptic email from my boss’s boss-clearly written by someone else-about certain but not all probationary employees. Anyone get clarity?
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2025 17:05     Subject: Patent Office RTO Predictions
Anonymous wrote:Heard RIF started today at PTO. Who is getting let go?


Probationary employees?
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2025 16:37     Subject: Patent Office RTO Predictions
Heard RIF started today at PTO. Who is getting let go?
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2025 13:41     Subject: Patent Office RTO Predictions
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
Post 02/18/2025 14:11     Subject: Patent Office RTO Predictions
If there is a RTO for examiners, most likely a federal office as a potential location vs a main campus?
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 12:58     Subject: Patent Office RTO Predictions
So what has changed?
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2025 05:47     Subject: Patent Office RTO Predictions
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How is the first day back?


there was free food


Random fruit and cookies from the cafeteria?
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2025 21:55     Subject: Patent Office RTO Predictions
Anonymous wrote:How is the first day back?


there was free food
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2025 14:13     Subject: Patent Office RTO Predictions
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.