FTC suggests improving patent law policy

By Andrew Raff on October 31, 2003 12:02 AM

The Federal Trade Commission released a report on How to Promote Innovation: The Proper Balance of Competition and Patent Law and Policy. Among the ten FTC recommendations:

Create a new administrative procedure that will make it easier for firms to challenge a patent’s validity at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), without having to raise an expensive and time-consuming federal court challenge
Allow courts to find patents invalid based on the preponderance of the evidence, without having to find that clear and convincing evidence compels that result
Limit the award of treble damages for willful patent infringement.

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