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Duke-Santa Clara Patent Quality Conferences

September 9, 2016 @ 8:45 am - 5:15 pm EDT

The Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy and the Santa Clara High Tech Law Institute invite you to participate in a pair of jointly-hosted conferences on patent quality. The first conference is on Sept. 9, 2016, at Santa Clara University; the second is on Dec. 13, 2016, at the U.S.P.T.O. in Alexandria, Virginia. These conferences will convene academics and stakeholders to reflect as a community.

Over the past 7 years, the PTO has made patent quality a major priority, launching initiatives and taking executive action to reduce application pendency, enhance prior art search capabilities, bolster examiner training, increase clarity of the record, enhance transparency, and calibrate examiner incentives, among other steps. As the PTO continues to implement a number of ongoing programs and roll out new ones, these conferences will convene policy-makers, academics, and stakeholders to reflect as a community on what has gone well, what has been learned, and what potential next steps, policies and procedures the PTO might consider for ensuring that U.S. patents are of the highest quality.

More information: https://law.duke.edu/innovationpolicy/patentqualityconf/

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September 9, 2016
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8:45 am - 5:15 pm EDT
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https://law.duke.edu/innovationpolicy/patentqualityconf/