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The USPTO uses patent initiatives to reduce patent application backlogs, enhance patent quality, and support, collaborate with and accelerate inventors' and entrepreneurs' applications to secure intellectual property protections.
Lists of future and past Partnership Meetings, implemented as a collaborative effort to give the IP community and the USPTO a forum to discuss items of mutual interest.
The Quick Path Information Disclosure Statement (QPIDS) program is part of the USPTO's on-going efforts towards compact prosecution and pendency reduction.