Michelle Lee means continuous anti-patent reform ..
While Michelle Lee’s USPTO is attempting to increase examination fees, the USPTO is diverting fees paid for examination to fund the rapidly growing Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB). The PTAB was created by Congress to address the problem of so-called “bad patents” promoted by the anti-patent lobby and Michelle Lee. Their argument was that the USPTO issues far too many “bad patents” and those patents are used to shakedown unsuspecting multinational corporations. Thus, the PTAB was created to invalidate these so-called, but undefined, “bad patents”. But Michelle Lee’s PTAB went much further than invalidating just “bad patents”. The PTAB invalidates at least one claim in over 95% of the patents that it reviews. Invalidating just one claim can neuter the enforceability of the patent completely, making it worthless. This is particularly true because once one claim is invalidated requesters can use that invalidated claim as support for a reexamination request that would place the burden on the applicant to defend a patent that was supposed to be presumed valid. Worse, a reexamination proceeding can easily take three to four years to complete without appeals.
It defies reason that 95% of issued patents are “bad patents” and should be invalidated or neutered, and it is insulting that the Patent Office refuses to presume patents they issue are presumed valid despite the statute saying that examined and issued patents are, in fact, legally presumed valid. These patents have already been examined in a rigorous, lengthy and expensive examination process by the same USPTO that is now invalidating the patent. They give with one hand and take with the other; the Patent Office has become more arms dealer than honest broker. Furthermore, and quite importantly, these patent are selected by experts who risk millions of dollars evaluating the patent, the case for infringement and paying for litigation. It is beyond obvious that these patents cannot all be “bad patents”...
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Cash strapped USPTO, failed fee increase and political shenanigans
By Paul Morinville February 26, 2017 https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/02/26/uspto-failed-fee-increase-political-shenanigans/id=78760/