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Comparative Analysis Shows US Patent Office Scores Poorly On Patent Quality

By Intellectual Property Watch

Quality across patent systems has been understudied but a new methodology put forward by the former chief economist of the European Patent Office suggests that the EPO provides higher quality services than its United States and Japan counterparts. Efforts at collaborative work between patent offices are being made but mutual recognition might not be possible or desirable without some harmonisation in the way the different systems operate.

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Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on June 18, 2010 (boomark / email).