Patent Quality: The Missing Half of America’s Patent Reform Debate

Patent Quality: The Missing Half of America’s Patent Reform Debate

As the administration continues its efforts to restore our patent system, lost amid all the talk about discretionary denials, injunctive relief, patent fees, etc.

“Patent quality is the single issue that affects all stakeholders… By tackling quality, the USPTO can improve the patent system without picking winners and losers.”

Today’s conversations about restoring the remedy of injunctive relief to strengthen our patent system are incomplete unless the other half of the patent coin is mentioned too – patent quality. Otherwise, the administration’s actions will bring us back in time to the era before the America Invents Act (AIA), in which poor quality patents were swords to extort money from operating companies.

Quality has been a bugaboo for the U.S.

Author’s summary: Patent quality affects all stakeholders in the US patent system.

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IPWatchdog IPWatchdog — 2025-10-15

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