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How to reform the US Patent Office
Authored by: ThrPilgrim on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 04:05 AM EDT
1) Increase filing fees by 50%
2) For every granted patent 75% of the filing fee + interest is returned to the
inventor, this is calculated pro rata on the surviving claims of the originally
filed patent.
3) Change the law so that an extension to a patents claims does not reset the
clock on when the patent expires.

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It is getting *much* hotter in the kitchen...
Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 11:42 AM EDT
Remove patent Appeals from the Federal Circuit.

The idea of a "Specialist Court" has wreaked havoc on patent law and
created additional work for the Supremes, correcting their excesses.

It is well known that many eyes are better that a few.

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Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk

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It is getting *much* hotter in the kitchen...
Authored by: cjk fossman on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 02:21 PM EDT
Your first point is going to pack juries with jurors who have
a vested interest in the patent system.

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It is getting *much* hotter in the kitchen...
Authored by: kjs on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 11:21 PM EDT
yeah, sure..... Just got a letter from the USPTO about prior art they found for
an application. A short look at it shows that they must have used the following
innovative keywords for the search: "the" and "and". That's
about the only thing the application and the prior art has in common.....

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