http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2013/03/pre-aia-filing-numbers.html
Due to the graph in this article it seems as if the patent filing world has entered into a big race. The amount of non-provisionals filed tripled in one week. It seems as if inventors all across the country felt the need to prepare themselves for the ultimate change. Im curious as to how many of the patents included in this tripling were from large corporations and how many were from the average everyday inventor. I also wonder how this will affect the patent office. With the rapid influx of patents being filed will this cause errors in reviewing the patents because there are so many? Will they need to hire more staff to review all of the patents? We discuss patents from the side of the inventor but we need to remember that there is another side to the end stage of a patents completion. I kind of regret not throwing together some rough ideas I had into a provisional patent to hop on this filing band wagon.
I just think that this will bottleneck the system to an even greater extent which will ultimately benefit very few people/companies. Although maybe I should apply for a job with the USPTO and win haha (jk)
ReplyDeleteI think people are seeing how rapidly the mobile applications are becoming or how much technology is advancing and want to do what you regret doing, file patents. Because of this, I believe people are just filing for patents but i doubt half of them will actually be developed. It seems like it's all a waste of time and resources for the people who would actually have to approve them. Maybe it will create more jobs so more people can read. who knows.
ReplyDeleteI agree with "Patentengineering 190G" when they say that it will slow the system down even more. One of the articles I discuss is about how there has a backlog of over 30,000 design patents per year and the USPTO only has the capacity to evaluate 25,000 a year. Clearly the USPTO lacks funds and will need more to make sure it can keep up with this rapid pace of patent filings.
ReplyDeleteThe USPTO should expect changes to streamlining its current operations. After all, because the organization deals directly with a billion dollar industry that has literally developed and matured in a span of less than 10 years... With its market projected to hit 1.6 trillion (by some estimates) by 2018, the USPTO should prepare and mold itself to best serve the needs of the innovators, marketer, and consumers.
ReplyDeleteGreat article Cory. Like Adam said, the USPTO will have to hire more people in order to keep up with the patent filings. If that does not happen, it could lead to some mistakes, delays, and even lawsuits.
ReplyDeleteSwitching from first-to-invent to first-to-file will have a huge impact on the mobile tech industry as well as other patent-heavy industries. It's no wonder everyone tried to get their applications in before it switched.
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