Paying these maintenance fees seems like a complex issue to me. Raising the USPTO fees would prevent smaller players from maintaining a patent, but lowering the fees would flood the application process with more junk patents since there would be less barrier of entry.
Paying these maintenance fees seems like a complex issue to me. Raising the USPTO fees would prevent smaller players from maintaining a patent, but lowering the fees would flood the application process with more junk patents since there would be less barrier of entry.
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