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The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In response to weaknesses including questionable patent quality, rising transaction costs, impediments to the dissemination of information through patents, and international inconsistencies, a National Academies committee—in its report, A Patent System for the 21st Century—urged major changes to the way the U.S. patent system operates and informed legislation to that effect.
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A Patent System for the 21st Century
Consensus Study Report
·2004
The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In many respects the system has responded with admirable flexibility, but the strain of continual technological change and the greater importance ascribed to patents in a knowledge economy are expos...
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