tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851300.post7553743973405110755..comments2023-11-05T06:06:12.057-06:00Comments on The 271 Patent Blog: USPTO: The Toughest Place to Get a Patent?Two-Seventy-One Patent Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02481083706071978817noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851300.post-81122409643220404242008-03-13T14:52:00.000-05:002008-03-13T14:52:00.000-05:00If USPTO wants to improve quality of issued patent...If USPTO wants to improve quality of issued patent, they should concentrate on training better examiners. Equating quality with allowance is not a way to measure quality of an issued patent. A bad patent application can still be issued if a Patent Examiner does not know or does not apply the rules set forth in statutes and court cases. Maybe Commissioner Dudas should pay a little attention to some of the practices at the USPTO. One website that allows members of professional organizations, corporations, and inventors to pool their experiences and opinions about Patent Examiners is WWW.USPTOEXAMINERS.COM. On this website you can anonymously comment on some of the Patent Examiners’ practices. I believe that if Commissioner Dudas address some of the issues and concerns raised by the practitioners, the Patent Examiners may once again remember that their job and purpose is to promote innovations and not to reject a patent application for the sake of rejecting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851300.post-39010183517282627572008-03-11T09:45:00.000-05:002008-03-11T09:45:00.000-05:00Has anyone checked out the USPTO's stats? Don't th...Has anyone checked out the USPTO's stats? Don't they use number granted in 2007/number of applications in 2007? Thus the same number of people granted the same number of patents but the USPTO received more applications? I think you'll find that this is no measure of "quality" but rather how quickly or slowly they grant. As the number of applications go up, so the headline percentage drops without any change in granting practice. The number should drop again this year if the number of applications goes up again!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851300.post-17027180745679034432008-03-10T08:35:00.000-05:002008-03-10T08:35:00.000-05:00I am very concerned about the dropping allowance r...I am very concerned about the dropping allowance rates and agree that the PTO is equating quality with allowance.<BR/>You mention "ammo chest," my question is what are the current rules that the PTO is using to determine obviousness? The MPEP appears worthless, there does not appear to be any consistency between art groups, and the only logic that seems to fit the results is a quota system randomly applied by SPE's.<BR/>I believe that the only hope is to have Commissioner Dudas promoted to some other agency and get a patent practioner into the PTO top slot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com