White House responds to Patent Petition

Re:White House responds to Patent Petition by john_b on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @02:50PM (#3183515)

I only had time to briefly skim this, but I didn't catch anything about reforming the compensation system for patent examiners, which incentivizes the granting of patents without giving them sufficient review. Anyone else find any info of this nature in the PDF?

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Re:White House responds to Patent Petition by JVerstry on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @03:02PM (#3183581)

This is not the purpose of this document.

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Re:White House responds to Patent Petition by raphman on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @04:56PM (#3184105)

What are these incentives?

(I recently learned that examiners at the European Patent Office have no direct incentives for granting a patent and may internally bill more working time if they reject a patent application instead. However, as rejecting an application requires a lot more research than granting a patent, examiners still might have an incentive to just grant a patent.)

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Re:White House responds to Patent Petition by dhume on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @05:02PM (#3184129)

From what I've heard, it's combination of time restrictions for reviewing a patent and penalizing rejections that later get overturned when the applicant appeals the decision.

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