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Since the USPTO is financed by patent application fees it has a perverse incentive to continue promiscuously granting as many patents as possible. I would hope
by donaldc 13y ago
Since the USPTO is financed by patent application fees it has a perverse incentive to continue promiscuously granting as many patents as possible.
I would hope that filers for patents that are rejected would still get charged a fee. If they aren't, they should be. After all, it still takes up a patent clerk's time.
- rgraham 13y agoThis appears to be the case. Well, perhaps not an additional fee, but filing isn't cheap. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee031913.htm http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee031913.htm