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Dudas: First quarter allowance rate at about 44%

Jon Dudas held a Q&A with the media this morning to discuss the recently-issued Bush administration letter of opposition (.pdf) to the Senate version of The Patent Reform Act of 2007 (S.1145).

I was able to participate on the call and will post an analysis soon, but wanted to push this tidbit out quickly:

In his opening remarks, Jon Dudas noted that the allowance rate for the first quarter of the current fiscal year is “about 44%.”

And so the precipitous drop in the allowance rate that started in about 2000 continues….

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One Response to “Dudas: First quarter allowance rate at about 44%”

  1. New on Metrics - Utility patent grants down 13% as compared to 2006IpostedIpoThEveryone says:
    November 17, 2008 at 9:31 am

    [...] stakeholders, including portfolio owners and practitioners alike, are feeling the pain of the dramatically lower allowance rate that we’ve been living with for some time [...]

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