Law360, New York (November 06, 2009) -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office plans to help small inventors with multiple patent applications take greater control over their patent prosecution through a pilot program announced Friday that would let inventors willing to abandon one unexamined patent application fast-track another.
The goal of the new program is to cut both pendency time for smaller inventors and the agency's backlog of unexamined applications, it said....
