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edguer@ces.cwru.edu (Aydin Edguer) writes:
> No.  If anything it will get worse as salaries at the Patent & Trademark
> Office [PTO] rise.  Due to a Reagan plan, the PTO is supposed to be
> self-supporting.  It used to be subsidized, but it is now supposed to
> be charging all its costs back to the people who use its services.
> Depending upon your economic point of view, this is either good or bad.

Note that it introduces a powerful incentive to the PTO to be less stringent
about rejecting patents for which there is prior art.  Fewer rejections means
more patents and hence more fees.


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