Iancu Aims to Tackle U.S. Patent Quality Issues

• Patent Office looking into patent eligibility, review procedures, Iancu says • U.S. intellectual property leadership status “within reach,” director says

Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu is focusing on improving patent quality and adopting pro-innovation polices in a bid boost his agency’s global standing.

“For more than just a few years, our system has been pushed and pulled, poked and prodded,” Iancu said in a speech in Washington at an event hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “The cumulative result is a system in which the patent grant is less reliable today than it should be.”

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