Presentation to Connecticut Intellectual Property Law Association (long description)

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UPR Applications Filed UPR = Utility, Plant and Reissues

Year	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Filings	221304	191,116	220,773	240,090	261,041	293,244	326,081	333688	333452	355527	383000

FY 05 plan 375,080 (5.5% above FY 04)
FY 05 actual 384,228 (8.1% above FY04)
2.6% over plan
This shows you that, in FY 05, we received more than 383,000 applications. The actual filings outpaced our FY 05 model by 1.5%.

TC Application Inventory

	1600	1700	2100	2600	2800	3600	3700	Total*	Design
New Applications¹ 9/30/2004	55,402	63,923	71,778	97,380	77,651	56,738	65,005	508,878	18,451
New Applications ¹ 9/30/2005	62,644	72,697	76,529	115,585	94,425	70,354	83,225	586,580	24,534

Continuation Filing Rates

Fiscal Year	FY80	FY81	FY82	FY83	FY84	FY85	FY86	FY87	FY88	FY89	FY90	FY91	FY92	FY93	FY94	FY95	FY96	FY97	FY98	FY99	FY00	FY01	FY02	FY03	FY04	FY05
Continuations (CON, CPA/RCE)	6,022	6764	9097	6764	9509	11882	14036	15466	16923	19184	19962	22346	26086	28067	31750	39175	28751	32410	33833	39446	49978	56492	60443	68087	73948	84250
CIPs	8,192	5743	5871	5023	5903	6648	7383	7745	8432	9282	10222	10980	11968	12690	13753	15881	10500	10914	11288	12257	13764	14472	14399	14533	14929	15378

Continuation Filing Percentage

Fiscal Year	FY80	FY82	FY84	FY86	FY88	FY90	FY92	FY94	FY96	FY98	FY00	FY02	FY04
% Continuations (CON, CPA/RCE) of Total Filings	6.42%	7.79%	8.68%	11.54%	12.35%	12.20%	15.12%	17.06%	15.05%	14.09%	17.04%	18.11%	20.80%

APPEAL PENDENCYFY01 – FY05

	FY 01	FY 02	FY 03	FY 04	FY 05
Inventory Reduction Measure	11.8	7.7	6	3.5	3.8
Time to Renew from Docketing			14.5	9.9	4.8

Average Number of Claims at Filing
This graph represents a summary of the previous slides. 14 years ago, the average number of claims submitted at filing was 14. Now, the average number of claims has increased to 24. While this does not sound like much, 10 additional claims over 400,000 applications represents an additional 4 million claims being examined by examiners today.

Pendency Reduction Action Plan Graph Election of Claims – Example 1
Independent Claims are circled. 1, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 12 are circled.
Numbers in Red are elected claims. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 are in red.
Numbers in Black are elected claims. 2, 5, 13, and 14 are in black.

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