Trouble at the USPTO—Part I: Why government cutbacks are making everyone nervous

Return-to-office orders, redundancies, hiring freezes—do changes sweeping through the US agency ‘risk breaking the system’? Marisa Woutersen finds patent practitioners fearful of the future.

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