M·CAM Supported Research at U.C. Berkeley Presented at National Bureau of Economic Research meeting in Cambridge.

Date:  Wed, 2009-07-22

M·CAM Supported Research at U.C. Berkeley Presented at National Bureau of Economic Research meeting in Cambridge.

University of California, Berkeley; Charlottesville, Virginia – July 22, 2009 –– UC Berkeley economists Zhen Lei and Brian Wright have published a seminal paper examining the issue of patent quality supported, in part, by a research collaboration with M·CAM. Why Weak Patents? Rational Ignorance or Pro–”Customer” Tilt? is an examination of both human and machine metrics of patent quality showing profound discrepancies in patent issuing between the United States, Europe, and machine intelligence criteria. “Our study suggests that the rules and procedures of the USPTO have forced examiners to grant many of these weak applications,” they conclude.