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6 hours agoPatents Subjected to IPRs are the Perfect Vehicle to Assess the USPTO's Patent Quality Problem
The fact that patents subjected to an inter partes review (IPR) are "specially selected" is the very reason that this class of patents are a suitable vehicle for studying the cited evidence. The actual evidence cited is what determines "the underlying actual quality of issued patents." Understanding how patent information evidence is missed during examination will identify the root cause of examination errors, both allowance errors and rejection errors.
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