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October 1, 2006

Examiner Attrition

The Denver Business Journal, in an article largely about Denver possibly hosting a satellite office of the PTO, reported last week: "About 3,000 people work as patent examiners...They're hiring a thousand examiners a year, and they still can't keep up with demand... The heavy workload has resulted in an attrition rate as high as 30 percent for first-year hires."

Posted by Patent Hawk at October 1, 2006 7:59 PM | The Patent Office