Potential clients frequently ask us about the cost of getting a patent. The proportion of the costs attributed to legal fees often surprises them. Patent Office filing fees are as low as $75 for a provisional application and $455 for a nonprovisional application, so clients ask why they should pay us multiple thousands of dollars to get a patent application drafted and filed.
Professor Glenn Reynolds from the University of Missouri law school has a new post on his blog at Patently-O.com with a preliminary analysis of patent cases at the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the highest appeals court below the U.S. Supreme Court. The story told by these data is incomplete, but they highlight the many challenges facing inventors in enforcing their patent rights. As professor Reynolds notes, the America Invents Act changed the role of the Federal Circuit in deciding patent cases and as a result patent challengers are much more likely to win on appeal.
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