Accelerated Examination for Green Technology Patent Applications

If you haven't had a chance yet to check USPTO Director David Kappo's blog, you are missing helpful information. Today's (Dec. 8, 2009) entry gives details about a pilot program designed to reduce the average processing time of green technology patent applications. The program will be open to the first 3,000 applications already on file with the USPTO for which inventors add a no-cost petition indicating "how the invention materially contributes to environmental quality, the discovery or development of renewable energy resources, more efficient utilization and conservation of energy resources, or greenhouse gas emission reduction."