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- From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
- To: Bouthier Christophe <Christophe.Bouthier@loria.fr>
- Cc: <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] News rules at the US Patent Office
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:17:04 +0200 (CEST)
> - Sliding scale of fees for applications with more than 20 claims
> "The more you want to claim, the more you have to pay"
...
> The first idea seems great. Of course it do not tackle the problem of
> logical patenting. But still, at least the patent will be less
> overbroad. What do you think ?
This has no influence on broadness at all.
One may even argue that it creates an incentive to make the independent
claims broader, so as to reduce the number of necessary extensions.
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