Download or read book U S Patent and Trademark Office USPTO Needs to Strengthen Patent Quality Assurance Practices written by United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Audit and Evaluation and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patents in the Knowledge Based Economy written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-08-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assembles papers commissioned by the National Research Council's Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) to inform judgments about the significant institutional and policy changes in the patent system made over the past two decades. The chapters fall into three areas. The first four chapters consider the determinants and effects of changes in patent "quality." Quality refers to whether patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) meet the statutory standards of patentability, including novelty, nonobviousness, and utility. The fifth and sixth chapters consider the growth in patent litigation, which may itself be a function of changes in the quality of contested patents. The final three chapters explore controversies associated with the extension of patents into new domains of technology, including biomedicine, software, and business methods.
Download or read book U S Patent and Trademark Office USPTO patent quality assurance process written by United States. Department of Commerce. Office of the Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Patent System for the 21st Century written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In many respects the system has responded with admirable flexibility, but the strain of continual technological change and the greater importance ascribed to patents in a knowledge economy are exposing weaknesses including questionable patent quality, rising transaction costs, impediments to the dissemination of information through patents, and international inconsistencies. A panel including a mix of legal expertise, economists, technologists, and university and corporate officials recommends significant changes in the way the patent system operates. A Patent System for the 21st Century urges creation of a mechanism for post-grant challenges to newly issued patents, reinvigoration of the non-obviousness standard to quality for a patent, strengthening of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, simplified and less costly litigation, harmonization of the U.S., European, and Japanese examination process, and protection of some research from patent infringement liability.
Download or read book Basic Facts about Trademarks written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Information Concerning Patents written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Requirements Bulletin for Admission to the Examination for Registration to Practice in Patent Cases Before the U S Patent and Trademark Office written by United States. Patent and Trademark Office and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intellectual property USPTO has made progress in hiring examiners but challenges to retention remain report to congressional committees written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patent Quality Enhancement in the Information based Economy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Trademark Law written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OECD Patent Statistics Manual written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual provides guiding principles for the use of patent data in the context of S&T measurement, and recommendations for the compilation and interpretation of patent indicators in this context.
Download or read book Accountability Report for Fiscal Year written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Patent and Trademark Office Hiring Efforts are Not Sufficient to Reduce the Patent Application Backlog written by Robin M. Nazzaro and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grants patents for new ideas and innovations. Increases in the vol. and complexity of patent applications (PA) have extended the time for processing them. Concerns continue about the agency¿s efforts to attract and retain qualified patent examiners (PE) who can help reduce the growing backlog of unexamined PA. In 2007, a report was issued on: (1) USPTO¿s process for making its annual hiring est. and the relationships of these est. to the PA backlog; (2) the extent to which PE hiring has been offset by attrition, and the factors that may contribute to this attrition; and (3) the extent to which USPTO¿s retention efforts align with PE¿s reasons for staying with the agency. This testimony is based on a survey of 1,420 PE. Ill.
Download or read book Guidelines for Preparing Patent Landscape Reports written by World Intellectual Property Organization and published by WIPO. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Guidelines are designed both for general users of patent information, as well as for those involved in producing Patent Landscape Reports (PLRs). They provide step-by-step instructions on how to prepare a PLR, as well as background information such as objectives, patent analytics, concepts and frameworks.
Download or read book Review of U S Patent and Trademark Office Operations Including Analysis of Government Accountability Office Inspector General and National Academy of Public Administrarion Reports written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving Software Patent Quality Through the Administrative Process written by Arti K. Rai and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The available evidence indicates that patent quality, particularly in the area of software, needs improvement. This Article, to be published in a Symposium on intellectual property and information law in the administrative state, argues that even an agency as institutionally constrained as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) could implement a portfolio of pragmatic, cost-effective quality improvement strategies. The argument in favor of these strategies draws upon not only legal theory and doctrine but also new data from a PTO software examination unit with relatively strict practices. Strategies that resolve around Section 112 of the patent statute could usefully be deployed at the initial examination stage. Other strategies could be deployed within the powerful new post-issuance procedures available to the agency under the America Invents Act. Notably, although the strategies the Article discusses have the virtue of being neutral as to technology, they are likely to have a very significant practical impact in the area of software.
