In October, the FTC issued a report titled “To Promote Innovation: The Proper Balance of Competition and Patent Law and Policy.”
FTC Urges Changes to U.S. Patent Policy
In October, the FTC issued a report titled "To Promote Innovation: The Proper Balance of Competition and Patent Law and Policy." Citing an existing system that relies on presumptions in favor of the issuance and validity of patents and that makes challenges to the validity of existing patents difficult and costly, the report contains specific recommendations on what the FTC considered to be improvements to the U.S. patent system. The report comes nearly 1 year after the FTC and the DOJ completed a series of public hearings on the proper balance between patent and antitrust law with an aim to foster innovation and maximize consumer welfare. The hearings, which took place over 24 days between February and November of 2002, attracted the participation of more than 300 panelists and more than 100 written submissions from business representatives, the independent inventor community, and leading patent and antitrust practitioners, scholars and organizations.
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