Patent rejections soar as pressure on agency rises
Madison — Issued in 1995, U.S. Apparent No. 5,443,036 is titled “Method of Exercising a Cat.” If you move the light from a laser arrow around on the floor, it says, your cat will chase it.
That’s right — it’s patented.
Yet when medical professor Janet Mertz applied for a explicit on a new diagnostic test for breast cancer in 2002, she waited five years for a ruling — and was rejected. The hormone-based investigation, developed and refined for more than a dozen years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was deemed too apparent to merit patent protection.
There’s more at stake than physic, Mertz says: “This could actually make wampum for the state of Wisconsin.”
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Intercession, the steward of the nation’s most important technologies, has been rejecting applications at an unprecedented be entitled to during the past few years, yet it still cannot keep pace with the torrent of applications.
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