[5] These employees are evaluated by a point system, based on the number of applications that they address and dispose of, either by permitting them to go forward to registration, or denying registration in an office action, and seeing this denial through any appeals taken within the USPTO.
In 2011, proposed budget cuts of $100 million to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office budget of slightly over $2 billion were reported to not have any impact on the size of the Trademark staff.
The TPI (Turkish Patent Institute) employs more than hundred trademark examiners at any given time.
All TPI trademark examiners work in the TPE building in Ankara, Turkey.
After 2 years TPE wants from him to prepare a thesis about any subject of trademark.