"The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) grants 78% of all original patent applications as opposed to 61% granted by Japan and 55% granted by the European Union.... [O]nly 72.5% of the patents issued in the US were issued by the European Patent Office and only 44.5% were issued by the Japanese Patent Office.... The PTO receives roughly ten times as much money from issuing a patent than it does from denying it....Read the whole thing here.
[S]tatistics cited by the PPF show that 30% of all issued patents reviewed by courts lacked novelty, and 40% of the remaining patents were found invalid for being obvious...."
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Weak Patents, the USPTO, European Patent Office, Japanese Patent Office and the Actavis Case at the U.S. Supreme Court
Make sure you read the posting Actavis Case Shows Weak Patents Are System-Wide at Patent Progress, which writes inter alia as follows:
