So Close Yet So Far...
Place your bets. Will USPTO hit 100% of new patent grants having Cooperative Patent Classification symbols next week?
Of the 6,251 utility patents this week, 98.4% had CPC classification data. Another uptick over last week's 96.6%. Next week starts the publication of the Official Gazette with CPC data integrated therein. Now it's going to get interesting.
Here is this week's box score summary:
Score Card
March 31, 2015Total: 6,805
New Grants*: 6,796
*New Utility, Design, & Plant Patents
US Grants: 3,309
Foreign Grants: 3,496
Named Inventors: 18,541
| Domain | This Week | Year To Date |
|---|---|---|
| Utility | 6,251 | 71,710 |
| Chemical | 1,223 | 13,760 |
| Electrical | 3,371 | 38,624 |
| Mechanical | 1,657 | 19,326 |
| Design | 525 | 5,347 |
| Plant | 20 | 199 |
| Reexam | 11 | 184 |
| Reissue | 9 | 129 |
| Errata | 64 | 632 |
| Corrections | 398 | 5,744 |
| Business Methods | 36 | 342 |
| Broad Business Methods | 567 | 6,281 |
