The Washington Post: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said Saturday that it is “committed to taking any measures necessary” to stop employees who review patents from lying about their hours and getting overtime pay and bonuses for work they didn’t do.
The statement is the agency’s first acknowledgement of fraudulent practices in its award-winning telework program since The Washington Post reported that time and attendance fraud are common practices for some of the government’s highly paid patent examiners.
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