Empirical Scholarship on the Prosecution Process at the PTO

Authors

Michael D. Frakes, Duke Law SchoolFollow
Melissa F. Wasserman

Document Type

Chapter of Book

Publication Date

2016

Keywords

Patent Office, patents, agency, empirical, intellectual property

Abstract

In this book chapter, we summarize empirical scholarship examining the patent prosecution process at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Citation

Michael Frakes & Michelle Wasserman, Empirical Scholarship on the Prosecution Process at the U.S. Patent Office, in Research Handbook on Economics of Intellectual Property Law (Peter S. Menell & David L. Schwartz eds., forthcoming)