Along with the job of examining applications, patent examiners currently search for prior art. PTO Director James Rogan said in a news conference that under his plan, applicants would have searches done by one of four sources: a private outside contractor; the patent office of another country; a country certified to do searches under the Patent Cooperation Treaty; or the PTO.
The PTO, however, will limit its searches to those for small, independent inventors.
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