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> 2. Examiners who want to get hired in private industry help create a quagmire of complex procedures that they will then be uniquely qualified to help their em
by forapurpose 8y ago
> 2. Examiners who want to get hired in private industry help create a quagmire of complex procedures that they will then be uniquely qualified to help their employer follow. That also would explain the linked paper's correlations.
From my amateur point of view, that would seem to cause a decrease, not an increase in granted patents. At best the number would be unchanged and the process would take longer. So how would (2) explain the observation of an increase?
- tripletao 8y agoThe paper studied the relative benefit to firms that hire former examiners. That relative benefit is the same regardless of whether examiners go easy on revolving-door employers, or hard on non-revolving-door employers.