Dudas: First quarter allowance rate at about 44%

Jon Dudas held a Q&A with the media this morning to discuss the recently-issued Bush administration letter of opposition (.pdf) to the Senate version of The Patent Reform Act of 2007 (S.1145).

I was able to participate on the call and will post an analysis soon, but wanted to push this tidbit out quickly:

In his opening remarks, Jon Dudas noted that the allowance rate for the first quarter of the current fiscal year is “about 44%.”

And so the precipitous drop in the allowance rate that started in about 2000 continues….


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