According to Inventors Digest -USPTO Director David Kappos has just announced a new plan to “Fast-Track” patent applications. According to the speech, given at the 14th Annual Inventors Conference (see link for more details http://uspto.gov/).

Inventors with two or more patent applications pending at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office can have one of their patents fast-tracked - “jumped to the head of the line,” in the words of USPTO director David Kappos - provided inventors abandon one of their less pressing applications.

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