http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2013/04/predicting-patent-issuance.html
This article merely poses a question and one that I find quite interesting. It is unfortunate that the author left the reader hanging with this question. I was really hoping there would be an answer or at least some evidence to support a claim. The question is are there objective factors that occur between the original application filing and the invention being patented. I am curious to know if there are objective factors and I wonder if the results of a study of this nature would prevent applications from dying before they are actually patented. I think if there are objective factors, which I have a feeling there are, this could be used by many inventors as a road map of things to avoid.
Great article Cory. It is unfortunate that the author did not answer this question and I do agree with you that they could be used by many inventors as a road map of things to avoid.
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