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15 September 2008

Action urged to reform patent system

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.




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