Patent Grant Rates at the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Abstract

In recent proposals for patent reform made by the Federal Trade Commission and by the National Academy of Sciences, there has been discussion of the possibility that the grant rate of patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office [USPTO] is high compared to that of other industrialized countries, including that of Japan and those of Europe.This discussion began with papers of Quillen and Webster that suggested that the grant rate might be as high as 97% and more reasonably is at least 85%.Although the

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