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New USPTO Fees Likely To Attract More Chinese Applicants

By Junqi Hang and Jing Xu (January 8, 2018, 12:42 PM EST) -- At the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a set of new fees will go into effect next week. Reflected in these new fees are fee increases, quite substantial in fact, relating to inter partes review proceedings. These fee increases do stand out as many other fees either stay unchanged or are subject to very minor changes. This article aims to examine the possible relationship between the fee increases and the IPR proceedings, and to then propose potential mechanisms via which the fee increases on the IPR proceedings are likely to attract more foreign applicants, and particularly Chinese applicants, to file before the USPTO....

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