After Unprecedented drops in Allowance rates and maintenance fees, the USPTO announces Mr. John Doll's Retirement

       
The USPTO announced today a Senior management shakeup, including the retirement of Mr. John Doll, who was most recently, Acting Director of the USPTO.  Click here to read the USPTO's announcement.  Mr. Doll is retiring after overseeing dramatic and unprecedented decreases in allowance rates and maintenance fees.  Several stakeholders in the patent community appear to have attributed a mismanaged, and wasteful anti-patent culture, to Mr. Doll's management and tenure as Commissioner and Acting Director at the USPTO. For example, click here and here to read of one blogger's perspective at the Patent Prospector blog, about mismanagement at the USPTO, when Mr. John Doll was in Senior Management.  I wondered if I detected dissatisfaction with Mr. Doll's latest performance in Senior Management in Director Kappos's swearing in speech last month at the USPTO, when he stated, "And I especially thank John Doll for his service leading the agency for the latest 7 months.  Thanks, also, to the former directors who are here today.  I look forward to working with you in my new capacity. "  The import of this last statement is not readily apparent from the text of the speech (click here to read the text of Mr. Kappos's swearing in speech available on the USPTO's website) but, if there is any special, subtle meaning to the statement "Thanks also, to the former directors who are here today.  I look forward to working with you in my new capacity..."  one may catch the nuance of it when listening to the cadence of the speech here:   

which is posted on the Anticipate This Blog.  I have expressed  before, that I agree with the general sentiment and opinion, that Mr. Doll presided over unprecedented mismanagement and waste of innovation during his tenure as Commissioner and Acting Director at the USPTO.

 

 

Posted by FederalWorker at 9/3/2009 10:51 PM
Categories: Mr. John Doll's Retirement from the USPTO
Tags: USPTO Innovation Quality Initiatives Patents
 

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