Action urged to reform patent system
15 September 2008
Peter Ollier, Boston
Problems with patent pendency worldwide are now so serious that “we’ve moved to the end of the era when ‘oh dear’ is an adequate response,” said EPO head Alison Brimelow last week
Brimelow was speaking at a special
AIPPI Congress
session in Boston with USPTO director Jon W Dudas and JPO commissioner Takashi Suzuki.
She spoke about the great increase in the number of patent applications, the long pendency and the uncertainty that this creates.
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