We explore how examiner behavior is altered by the time allocated for reviewing patent applications. Insufficient …

We explore how examiner behavior is altered by the time allocated for reviewing patent applications. Insufficient …

PatentChallenges.The information in this 2003 report is based on the samesurvey of experts and businesses that was conducted for the … previousreport.Thirty-nine U.S. patent attorneys were asked to identify ways thatsmall businesses could improve their foreign patent … invention prior to filing a U.S.patent application. Second, businesses should observe foreign filingdeadlines.Other steps …

on precedent or the economic rationales underlying the patent system. Rather, the fundamental touchstone for what … intuitive sense of what constitutes technology of the type protectable under the patent system …

patent law. The results are dramatic along several fronts: (1) the hindsight bias distorts patent decisions far more than … the hindsight problem; and (5) the hindsight problem pervades patent law to an extent not previously recognized - it … counter to the dominant patent analysis of the last decade and have significant implications for patent and innovation policy …