4.25.2007

Patent Prospector: Junk Patents

Patent Prospector: Junk Patents: "Junk Patents

The nadir of the USPTO allowing crappy patents was over a decade ago. Now, political climate changed, the continual stench of patent reform in the air, as often as not, agency rejections border on the absurd in stringency without efficacy. Conversations with other prosecutors confirm the observation that examination without spurious noise has become the exception."