Stanford CIS

The stupidest patents of 2017

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"Nazer believes none of these patents should have been granted in the first place, having failed to overcome the basic legal requirements of being both original and non-obvious. A big part of the problem, he says, has to do with how the patent office works.  “Patent examiners spend an average of only 18 hours reviewing each application,” he told me, “which is grossly inadequate.”"