Where was the March on Washington when the USPTO took our country Back (wards) under the Dudas Regime with Malfeasance, Mismanagement and Expansion of Big Government at the PTO?
Beginning in or around 2004, the futures of current and unborn generations were being snatched away by the USPTO, when the USPTO began to contribute to the unraveling of this country's economic picture by stifling innovation and consequently, saddling current and future generations with unsustainable debt. When the seeds of this grand theft were planted, where was the great hue and cry and the March on Washington? Where was the March on Washington on the basis of charges that the USPTO was undermining capitalism with its laying waste to innovation? Where was the March on Washington, DC - when the USPTO's General Counsel, (in my opinion), used at least one of his offices, to defend USPTO mismanagement and stifling and waste of innovation? Where was the March on Washington, when USPTO managers made some of their patent examiners put erroneous and misguided rejections into their office actions, and meanwhile, overlooked poor quality work in the work of other "favored" patent examiners not on "hit lists for removal". Where was the March on Washington when inventor applicants and other members of the public have been forced by the USPTO to expend an inordinate amount of resources defending themselves against bogus claims from the USPTO with little recourse against these bogus claims?
Since FY 04 and before this year's hiring freeze, the patent examining corps was expanded at an unprecedented rate with the hirings of thousands of new patent examiners, even while the USPTO was using hit lists for removal of patent examiners. These "hit lists", euphemistically known as "Second pair of eyes lists" were used by some in USPTO management, in an arbitrary, and unmeritorious fashion to unjustifiably purge the patent corps of certain examiners for reasons that were unrelated to merit principals and fair play. This expansion of "big" government essentially remade the patent examining corps into a corps containing a significant number of newer, more inexperienced examiners, who needed to be trained by the USPTO and to a large extent, could not issue the level of output of patents as their colleagues with higher seniority and productivity goals. The expansion of the patent examining corps was done under the pretext of addressing the need to reduce the patent application backlog and improve patent examination quality. However, the expansion of the corps arguably actually frustrated these goals, because the retention of these new examiners did not improve; meanwhile, public monies were being spent to train these thousands of new examiners, approximately half of whom could not be retained at the USPTO. Furthermore, a newer, more inexperienced patent examining corps has not resulted in substantial increases in patent examination quality or any reduction in patent application pendency. Patent application pendency actually increased as hiring of new patent examiners also increased.
During the Dudas Era, the USPTO also expanded its managerial ranks in an unprecedented fashion, creating a layer of Deputy Assistant Commissioners, to reward some managers who oversaw the unprecedented mismanagement of the USPTO and laid waste to innovation. Where was the March on Washington against this harmful expansion of "Big Government" at the USPTO?
Do we truly want a country, where a true meritocracy reigns, merit principles are applied, and scientific inquiry and knowledge and innovation are promoted and respected? Or do we want a USA where illusion is propagated by public officials about meritocracy, where transparency with regard to governmental operations is thwarted- and where patent applicants are unfairly and unjustifiably denied a patent or obstructed from timely patent prosecution due to USPTO mismanagement, favoritism and lack of observance and appreciation of true merit principles at the office?
Posted by FederalWorker at 9/12/2009 2:28 PM 
Categories: Statistical Representations of USPTO Patent Activities,Malfeasance and Mismanagement at the USPTO
Tags: Innovation Waste Second Pair of Eyes March on Washington Mismanagement Quality Review
Categories: Statistical Representations of USPTO Patent Activities,Malfeasance and Mismanagement at the USPTO
Tags: Innovation Waste Second Pair of Eyes March on Washington Mismanagement Quality Review
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