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Former Federal Circuit judge, former USPTO director warn of US patent system in ‘crisis’

By Melissa Ritti ( November 1, 2024, 21:27 GMT | Insight) -- Three bills pending in Congress are critical for getting the US back on track as a world leader in innovation, but in order for them to become law they must first be understood. The problem, former US Patent and Trademark Director Andrei Iancu said last week, is that legislators “by and large do not even know what a patent is.”A former member of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit painted a bleak picture last week of a dramatic fall from grace for a US patent system which was once an example to the rest of the world on how to foster and protect innovation....

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