Serco’s Pre-Grant Publication (PGPubs) Classification Services team recently processed the 1, 000, 000th application for the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO).
The firm reports that “since being awarded the USPTO contract to analyze the claims made in patent applications and assign the appropriate U.S. and international classifications to key aspects of proposed inventions, the Serco PGPubs team has processed an average of 350, 000 applications annually – or about 1, 350 applications on a typical day.”
“We are very proud of the work being done by our PGPubs team, ” Serco CEO Ed Casey said, “and we celebrate their achievement of this important milestone. The work they do for the USPTO is critical to our country’s technological and economic leadership. Serco has established a stellar reputation of delivering innovative solutions and substantial value to our customers, and we look forward to continuing to serve the USPTO and our other customers in the federal government in carrying out their important work.”
