The Expanding Patent Document: Fewer Claims, More Words, and a Trend That Predates Alice

The Expanding Patent Document: Fewer Claims, More Words, and a Trend That Predates Alice

Study of 7.6M patent applications shows specs nearly doubled from 2005-2025 while claim counts fell 19%, reversing the trend documented in 2008. Continue reading this post on Patently-O.

by Dennis Crouch When I set out to update my 2008 study on patent document size, I had a specific hypothesis in mind. The Supreme Court's 2014 decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 573… [+1553 chars]

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