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USPTO Asking For Ideas To Enhance Patent Quality

Posted by timothy on from the deny-randomly-like-insurance-companies dept.

dtmos writes "Tired of seeing poor-quality patents issued? Have a great way to solve the problem? Well, here's your chance to be part of the solution. The USPTO has issued a Request for Comments on Enhancement in the Quality of Patents (PDF), seeking public comment on ways to improve 'the process for obtaining the best prior art, preparation of the initial application, and examination and prosecution of the application.' Comments should be sent to patent_quality_comments@uspto.gov by February 8, 2010."

2 of 42 comments (clear)

  1. good book on patents by starfliz · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It is a good book on the patent system and its problems.

  2. Re:No Software patents by Theaetetus · · Score: 2, Informative

    How about you leave the patents to things that are actually patentable, and not processes, or ways of doing things?

    35 U.S.C. 101 Inventions patentable.

    Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.

    You were saying?