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Fixing The Design Patent Bar: New Opportunities For Federal Lawyers, Christopher Buccafusco, Jeanne C. Curtis
Fixing The Design Patent Bar: New Opportunities For Federal Lawyers, Christopher Buccafusco, Jeanne C. Curtis
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Irrational Ignorance At The Patent Office, Michael D. Frakes, Melissa F. Wasserman
Irrational Ignorance At The Patent Office, Michael D. Frakes, Melissa F. Wasserman
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There is widespread belief that the Patent Office issues too many bad patents that impose significant harms on society. At first glance, the solution to the patent quality crisis seems straightforward: give patent examiners more time to review applications so they grant patents only to those inventions that deserve them. Yet the answer to the harms of invalid patents may not be that easy. It is possible that the Patent Office is, as Mark Lemley famously wrote, “rationally ignorant.” In Rational Ignorance at the Patent Office, Lemley argued that because so few patents are economically significant, it makes sense to …