美国专利商标局向国会提交费用研究报告

By Ferraiuoli LLC

美国专利商标局 (USPTO) 根据《2022年发动美国创新者法案》的要求,向国会提交了一份报告,以评估其费用结构。该研究重点关注几个关键领域,包括对小型和微型实体的影响、费用结构是否有必要改变以及潜在的行政和立法行动。

该研究的一个重要发现是,目前的 USPTO 费用结构并没有阻止小型和微型实体提交专利申请。这些实体更多地受到外部因素的影响,而不是机构费用的影响。该报告还强调,外联和法律援助计划等补充举措可以提高小型和微型实体的参与率。

该研究还得出结论,USPTO 的费用结构将该机构约一半的审查成本推迟到维持费,对审查和专利决定没有显著影响。它表明,与其他模式相比,当前的结构(包括授予 USPTO 的临时费用制定权)具有优势。

Ferraiuoli LLC

Ferraiuoli LLC (FLLC) was founded in 2003 by the late Blas Ferraiuoli-Martínez, Eugenio Torres-Oyola and María Marchand-Sánchez. This group was then joined in 2004 by Fernando J. Rovira-Rullán, thus forming the founding core of FLLC. FLLC has grown exponentially since its founding from a law firm with three attorneys and a support staff of three to its current size of 54 attorneys with a support staff of 38. Also, FLLC has grown from initially being known as an intellectual property and corporate law boutique law firm to a multiservice law firm that handles most matters relevant to a business while continuing to earn praise for its leading intellectual property and corporate practices.

FLLC has been ranked as a leading law firm in Puerto Rico by the professional publication Chambers Latin America in intellectual property, corporate, bankruptcy, labor & employment, real estate, and tax law. Moreover, 17 FLLC partners have been ranked as leaders in their field by the same publication. 4 FLLC partners are ranked as leaders in Intellectual Property, no other firm has more than 2. This recognition in such a short period of time is a tribute to FLLC’s business model.

FLLC prides itself in doing its work faster and more cost-efficiently yet with the same quality as that of its main competitors. The founding name partners are available at all times to attend to client matters. Their work ethic sets the tone for the rest of the firm. FLLC’s founders’ goal has been steady from the outset: become one of the premier multiservice law firms in Puerto Rico.

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