Understanding Patent Quality Mechanisms

Abstract

THE 21ST CENTURY (Stephen A. Merrill et al. eds., 2004) (evaluating the current patent system and recommending seven changes to it); Robert Pear, Patent Bill Is Bonanza to Lobbyists, N.Y.TIMES, Apr. 30, 2008, at C1 (reporting views on patent reform and quoting the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director as stating that "[w]e are getting more and more unpatentable ideas, worse and worse quality applications").The need for patent-quality reform has also spurred various lobbying groups.See, e.g., Intellectual Prop.Owners Ass'n, Patent Reform, http://www.ipo.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Action_Center&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=3361 (last visited Apr. 15, 2009); Patent Fairness Coalition, http://patentfairness.org(last visited Apr. 15, 2009); The Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform, Patents Matter, http:/

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