State of Innovation

Patents and Innovation Economics

Patent Quality Myth

A number of papers have suggested that the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) quality in issuing patents is substandard.[1] These papers suggest that the USPTO’s allowance rate is significantly higher than the allowance rate in Europe and Japan.  From this they infer that the quality of patent examination, in the U.S. are not as thorough as those in Europe and Japan. Read more »

August 18, 2009 Posted by dbhalling | -Law, -Philosophy, Patents | 6 Comments