The new director of the United States Patent & Trademark Office — Andrei Iancu — spoke forcefully about how the American patent system has suffered as of late at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last month. Simply put, it is more difficult for independent inventors and small business owners to assert their rights to their inventions today for many reasons , including the following. The path therefore to assert rights to a patent has significantly diminished, especially for the common small inventors and business owners of America.”3. Without the ability to effectively exclude others, inventors and small business owners are at a disadvantage. This was a way to weed out bad patents — patents that should have never been issued.

Source: Forbes May 04, 2018 18:56 UTC