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Talk To a European Patent Examiner

Posted by Roblimo on from the different-laws-same-job dept.

While the US Patent and Trade Office sparks more discussion on Slashdot, the European Patent Office and the patent examiners who work there do much the same job as their US counterparts, although they work under a different set of laws and regulations. John Savage is a European patent examiner, and he has kindly consented to answer questions from Slashdot readers about the EU patent process. Usual rules apply: One question per post, we send 10 of the highest-moderated questions to John about 24 hours after this post appears, and run his answers verbatim when we get them back.

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  1. question: what is the US doing wrong? by krog · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Doubtless you are aware of the broad problems and miadventures of the USPTO. In your opinion, what are the USPTO doing wrong?

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  2. Low caliber but quick qn by shibboleth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How would your answers differ if you were writing anonymously?

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  3. Ignoring USPTO by heikkile · · Score: 5, Insightful
    As you must know by now, the USPTO has got itself a really bad name here, and (imho) rightly so. Yet I see no end to their silliness (method for amusing cats with a laser, one-click shopping, wild plants, human genes...)

    Do you see any chance of the rest of the world succeding in forcing USA to behave? For example, could we threaten to exclude USA from the international patent treaties, and stop enforcing US patents anywhere else?

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