The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) currently publishes approximately 3,500 patent grants per week and nearly that many patent applications. Sometime in 2002, the number of applications is likely to exceed the number of grants published. Long before the volume of applications reached its current level of more than 300,000, the United States, Japan, and the European Patent Offices (Trilateral Offices) realized that they all faced the same difficulties - a rapidly growing workload that could not be supported by simply enlarging the workforce. Automation and its ability to improve efficiencies were high on the list of possible solutions. In 1993, USPTO tasked a contractor to advise the USPTO on the use of SGML in processing patents.
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