United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is experiencing a huge demand for patents in class 705: business methods. At present, the resources and the design process is not sufficient to handle the incoming patents, resulting in a very long time waiting for the patent to be granted. This technical note describes the history of the USPTO, business class methods, and process patents. "Hide
by Raul Chao, Laurent McCray 26 pages. Publication Date: November 25, 2008. Prod. #: UV1081-PDF-ENG
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