On Tuesday October 7, 2025, at 12 PM ET Maier & Maier Partner and former Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy at the USPTO Bob Bahr will be a commentator on a Webinar hosted by Gene Quinn of IPWatchDog to discuss pendency at the USPTO.
Patent pendency at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is a problem. As of January, the number of unexamined applications reached a staggering and historic high, with 837,928 applications unexamined and nearly 1.2 million applications pending overall. As of August, the USPTO has been able to reduce the number of unexamined applications to 800,559, which is a great improvement, but much work remains to be done.
USPTO pendency isn’t just a back-end prosecution problem—it starts at the very first touchpoints of the innovation process. Small, AI-assisted changes to invention capture, prior-art triage, and claim strategy can help, and are becoming a necessity as the USPTO continues to implement AI solutions themselves.
Tune in on Tuesday, October 7, at 12 PM ET, for a conversation about how effective use of AI tools can reduce Office actions, avoid §101/§102/§103/§112 pitfalls, and accelerate filing paths. Find more info at Webinar: Cutting USPTO Pendency at the Source – Front-End AI for Faster, Stronger Filings – IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
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