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USPTO Requests Comments on Enhancement of Patent Quality

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Sarah Fendrick -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) have created a project to improve the overall quality of patents, reduce patent application pendency, and ensure that granted patents are valid. The improvement initiative does not involve changes in patent law or substantive new rules, but rather the USPTO is seeking public comment on a number of categories identified in a Notice published in the Federal Register (74 Fed. Reg. 65093) on December 9, 2009. In the past, two official metrics of examination quality were employed by the USPTO, the Allowance Compliance...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on December 14, 2009 (boomark / email).