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Will patentees suffer if the USA moves to a different lifetime for its patents?

A statistical analysis was made of the delay between application date and publication date of a sample of US patents. The average delay for US derived applications was 20.66 ± 1.83 months and for foreign derived applications 22.36 ± 1.82 months. Hence the conclusion is that if the US changed its patent term from 17 years from publication to 20 years from application, the vast majority of patents would obtain a longer lifetime.
Year of publication:
1995
Authors: Oppenheim, Charles
Published in:
World Patent Information. - Elsevier, ISSN 0172-2190. - Vol. 17.1995, 2, p. 97-99
Publisher: Elsevier
Type of publication: Article
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008546464
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