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USPTO White Paper Supports Patent Reform Proposals

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

By Kevin E. Noonan -- On April 13th, the Department of Commerce released a White Paper entitled "Patent Reform: Unleashing Innovation, Promoting Economic Growth & Producing High-Paying Jobs." All admirable goals, but unfortunately the paper is more hortatory than informatory. Disappointingly, department economists, including Mark Doms, the chief department economist, and Stuart Graham, Chief Economist of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, offer precious little evidence or even data supporting their assertions that the proposals they recommend will lead to these goals. (The first author of the report, Arti Rai, is the Administrator of the PTO's Office of External Affairs...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on April 23, 2010 (boomark / email).