There is one Office within the USPTO's Office of General Counsel which is a Huge Source of Governmental Waste
Want to know what is driving a significant portion of the USPTO's unprecedented funding shortfall to the tune of over $100 million whose roots were sown in the Dudas era beginning in or around FY 2004? In addition to lack of maintenance fees resulting from the USPTO's suppression of allowance rates, and drops in filings of patent applications, is the USPTO's Office of General Counsel's vigorous defense of some of the USPTO's mismanaged policies and paradigms that have led to these unfortunate occurrences. Essentially, innovation and meritocratic principles have been sacrificed by one of the offices within the USPTO's Office of the General Counsel since at least FY 04, which has placed a premium in using public dollars to defend waste, loss of innovation, and mismanagement. In my opinion, a prodigious amount of public monies have been expended by this one office within the USPTO's Office of General Counsel in defense of programs such as the second pair of eyes program and other mismanaged programs which increased patent application pendency and the patent application backlog. I'm convinced that an investigation into the expenditures of this one particular office within the USPTO's Office of General Counsel will reveal a vast waste of public monies in the defense of unmeritocratic, wasteful, and mismanaged policies, (such as aspects of the second pair of eyes program) which have harmed innovation, inventors, and the American economy. I will even go as far as to say that this Office within the USPTO's Office of General Counsel is confiscatory of public monies in its defense of mismanagement, waste, loss of innovation, and unmeritocratic principles. I believe that a complete overhaul and reform of this one particular office within the USPTO's Office of General Counsel that has been responsible for expending public monies in defense of mismanagement and waste of innovation, will be indispensable to the recovery of the USPTO's fiscal health and fulfillment of its intellectual property mission. The overzealous dysfunction of this office within the USPTO's Office of General Counsel is essentially a creature of the previous Dudas regime. It is not conventional to think of this particular Office, which I will leave unnamed for now, within the USPTO's Office of General Counsel as "bloated". However, this office is a quintessential example of bureaucracy that has become bloated to defend inefficiencies, waste, and mismanagement in patent operations. While government was being trimmed elsewhere during the past 4 years, the attorney staff within this particular office within the USPTO's Office of General Counsel grew, driving a significant expenditure of public monies in defense of mismanagement, waste of funds and loss of innovation.
Posted by FederalWorker at 9/1/2009 9:27 PM 
Categories: USPTO's Office of General Counsel as a Source of Waste
Tags: Waste USPTO Innovation Patents
Categories: USPTO's Office of General Counsel as a Source of Waste
Tags: Waste USPTO Innovation Patents
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