The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on February. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.
The average time it takes to obtain a patent from the patent office at this time is about 32 months or a little under 3 years. [See the current wait time statistics at the USPTO website [ here ] (best viewed with Internet Explorer)].
The most frequent publishing delay is 6 months â these are patents that were filed 12 months after the priority date. The 18-month spike is the case where the priority date is the same as the filing date for a new application, and the vanilla 18-month rule applies.