💸 Patent fees are not just administrative charges.
They shape who enters the patent system, how applications are drafted and prosecuted, and when unused rights fall into the public domain.
My new article on The Patentist: open.substack.com/pub/thepaten...
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From the USPTO’s value-tax debate to the EPO’s micro-entity discounts, patent-office fees are the most visible and controllable price signals in the patent system.
