The math and data used in the Improving Patent Examination Efficiency and Quality are detailed in these appendices …

One of the most urgent problems with the US patent system is that there are too many patents of poor quality. Most … blame the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) – its mistakes, overly generous grant rate, and lack of consistency. But … certain quality (by the applicant), to grant the patent (by the patent office), and to renew a patent and keep it in force (by …

The U.S patent system has been under attack for about a decade. One of the main justifications for changing the patent … system has centered on the issue of patent quality. According to patent critics, patents are bad or low quality, justifying … major changes to the patent examination and review system. I argue that patent quality is a proxy for attacking patent …

patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only “false innovators” have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, “true innovators” are forced to patent more intensively … distortions caused by bad patents. Moreover, we show that introducing a two-tiered patent system is unlikely to improve market …

This Comment responds to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Request for Comments on Enhancing Patent Quality …

types of measures of decision quality that can be employed by online providers. We examine the assumptions of and … relationships among preference-dependent, preference-independent, and subjective measures of decision quality. Analysis of data from … decision quality can be obtained by selectively combining these measures. Managerial implications for deploying electronic …

This study assessed the decision making quality towards the effectiveness of conciliation process of lupong … tagapamayapa. The main purpose and objective of this study is to determine which domain of decision making quality significantly … have shown that the level of the decision making quality of lupong tagapamayapa is very high, additionally the results also …