Patent Strategy Should Consider USPTO Examiner Incentives
By Eric Blatt ( August 24, 2018, 1:17 PM EDT) -- Patent examiners operate under a complex network of production and quality incentives that influence the likelihood that an examiner will allow or reject a given patent application. In a recent study, we detailed incentive policies at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and empirically investigated how those policies impact patent quality and examiner decision-making. This article considers how insights gleaned from that study can be used to inform patent procurement strategy....
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