Top White House officials said Wednesday that reductions in force are coming soon across the government. They’ve already started at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Hours after government funding lapsed, the Patent and Trademark Office began firing personnel, according to an internal email and interviews with staff. The fired personnel are people in business support units, such as communications, according to the staffers NOTUS spoke with.
About 140 of the USPTO’s 14,000 employees received notice of their firing, Bloomberg Law reported.