The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today held a “USPTO Hour” webinar in which it shared the results thus far of its 2022 pilot program, the “Deferred Subject Matter Eligibility Response (DSMER) Pilot.” The DSMER Pilot was announced in January 2022 in response to a 2021 letter sent to the Office by Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) asking then-interim Director Drew Hirshfeld to “initiate a pilot program directing examiners to apply a sequenced approach to patent examination,” rather than the traditional “compact approach.”

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