There is the internal process (from ideation to write-up, review and filing) and the external process (patent office review, examiner actions, final issue)
The internal process is based on the urgency (disclosure before public conference talk or tradeshow event vs. invention session) and the committees involved. Typically we had committees that met monthly and reviewed all submissions that were available by then. And amongst those, we prioritized for immediate relevance, inventor/reviewer availability etc. Anything from a month to a year..
The external process is not under our control (or at least that's how I felt). If your disclosure was found to have value and filed, then it could be anywhere from a few months to 10+ years before you saw the results :-) My fastest external turnaround was just a few months. The slowest was 7 years. And I still have a few in the pipeline that could potentially clear out any day and move that needle
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There is the internal process (from ideation to write-up, review and filing) and the external process (patent office review, examiner actions, final issue)
The internal process is based on the urgency (disclosure before public conference talk or tradeshow event vs. invention session) and the committees involved. Typically we had committees that met monthly and reviewed all submissions that were available by then. And amongst those, we prioritized for immediate relevance, inventor/reviewer availability etc. Anything from a month to a year..
The external process is not under our control (or at least that's how I felt). If your disclosure was found to have value and filed, then it could be anywhere from a few months to 10+ years before you saw the results :-) My fastest external turnaround was just a few months. The slowest was 7 years. And I still have a few in the pipeline that could potentially clear out any day and move that needle