According to this news report (link), the USPTO should also be hit by the crisis and anticipate a 2% drop in applications in 2009 if trends persist.
Apparently according to industry specialists, the drop could even be significantly higher. I am wondering if this is really going to happen. While for some secondary patent offices such trends may be clear and will happen, in top-tier IP countries such as the US I doubt that innovators are going to abord or pause their strategies to protect their IP.
A patent is (usually) granted for 20 years and hopefully it will take less than that time for the economy to recover!
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