Guest post: 2016 U.S. Patent Practitioner Trends Part 2 – Removal and Retirement of Patent Practitioners
Patent – Patently-O 2016-07-31
Summary:
By Zachary Kinnaird, Patent Attorney with International IP Law Group, PLLC Based on my analysis of the USPTO roster data: There were 44,295 registered patent practitioners in the U.S. as of April 2016. After 20 years on the USPTO roster, at least 15% of practitioners originally registered between 1988 and 1996 are no longer registered as […]