Patent Law

Shane report questions need for oppositions (PGR)

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

This report outlined several adverse effects likely to result from the expansion of
administrative patent challenges. It showed that the changes would increase the length of
patent pendency, create uncertainty about patent validity, decrease the knowledge
disclosure necessary for innovation, increase the costs of achieving patent validation,
reduce investment in R&D, hinder efforts of U.S. universities to transfer their inventions
to the private sector, and increase strategic patenting behavior by large, established firms.

Note endnotes 62 and 63:

62
Bessen, J., and Meurer, M. 2008. Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators
at Risk, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, p.19.
63
Bessen, J., and Meurer, M. 2008. Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators
at Risk, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, p. 225.

See
http://www.innovationalliance.net/files/Problems_Expected_from_Expanded_Administrative_Challenges_of_US_Patents_072009_Final[5]_0.pdf

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