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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 01:28 PM EDT |
Well. There's one penalty -- the application fee. The
problem is that the fee is low and covers the entire
application. This encourages lawyers to waste the time of
the USPTO.
This would actually be easy and cash-flow generating to fix.
(a) Broaden rules regarding obviousness.
(b) Allow rejection for vagueness (patents need to be useful
disclosures...correct?)
(c) Enter all prior submissions into a database and allow
their use as prior art for any unrelated submissions.
(d) Charge geometrically increasing fees for amending and
resubmitting a patent.
I believe that, if this was done, 80% of all future patent
problems would dissipate. (Suddenly, finding prior art
would become a high, high priority at the USPTO...they'd
probably even put up a crowd-sourced website - with
rewards.)
The current mess would remain.
--Erwin[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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