Peterlin urges IP counsel to file better patents
06 May 2008
Managing Intellectual Property
The deputy director of the USPTO has appealed to in-house IP counsel and private practitioners to provide more and better information about their inventions up front
Margaret Peterlin made her comments during a keynote address delivered at the IQPC Global IP Exchange conference in Pinehurst, North Carolina yesterday.
Peterlin said that the USPTO received 468,000 patent applications in 2007. By the end of 2007 there were a total of 760,000 patent applications pending at the Office. Although 1,200 new examiners will be hired this year, in the face of such numbers, Peterlin told the audience: “Hiring won’t help.”
Further complicating matters, 90% of all patent applications at the USPTO are rejected the first time they are reviewed. “There should be no disagreement that this is not an efficient allocation of resources,” she said.
One programme that has been implemented by the Office in an attempt to address patent pendency problems is the accelerated...
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