Reengineering the United States Patent Process: Improving Examination Procedures and Employee Communications

Kellas, Matthew Jesse; Mun, Alyssa Hope; Stevens, Corey Paul

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Reengineering the United States Patent Process: Improving Examination Procedures and Employee Communications

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Our goal was to recommend a more efficient patent examination process to the United States Patent and Trademark Office's Reengineering Process Team (RPT). In addition to recommending changes to the examination process, we also researched communication difficulties between employees who telecommute and employees who work in the physical office and possible solutions to those flaws. We developed a set of recommendations to assist the RPT in their efforts to develop efficient solutions to the current patent examination procedures.

This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

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