United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1997-03-13 monographic deposited born digital 26 p. GA 1.13:RCED-97-58 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-58 P0b002ee18038da8f f:rc97058 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-58 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-58 RCED-97-58 Patents Copyrights Statistical data Intellectual property Letter Report RCED Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO compared the Department of Commerce's Patent and Trademark Office's patent pendency statistics for fiscal years 1994 and 1995, focusing on: (1) overall pendency; (2) patent pendency by examination groups, secrecy orders, foreign applications, and current and original application dates; and (3) patent pendency attributable to applicants.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) patent pendency declined slightly in fiscal year (FY) 1995 in comparison with FY 1994; (2) overall average pendency in FY 1995 was 19.8 months, or 0.4 month less than the 20.2-month average for FY 1994; (3) similarly, pendency declined somewhat for 8 of the 17 examination groups and for foreign applications; (4) pendency remained about the same when the original rather than the current application filing date was used for the calculation; (5) pendency for applications subject to secrecy orders increased, but these were so few in number that they had virtually no effect on overall pendency; and (6) GAO also found that the average amount of pendency attributable to the applicant increased from 7.4 months in FY 1994 to 8 months in FY 1995. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-58/html/GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-58.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-58/pdf/GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-58.pdf GAO/RCED-97-58 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-RCED-97-58 Letter Report GAO/RCED-97-58; Intellectual Property: Comparison of Patent Examination Statistics for Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995; Patents Copyrights Statistical data Intellectual property Public Law 103-465