Yesterday, the European Patent Office announced that its grant rant dropped – for the first time since the Office opened in 1978 – to below 50%. IAM Magazine was quick to notice that this places the allowance rates of all three trilateral offices – the United States, Europe, and Japan – below 50%.
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Allowance rates at all three Trilateral Patent Offices below 50%
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009Dudas: First quarter allowance rate at about 44%
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008Jon 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….
