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Frank Rusco: What USPTO can do to reduce infringement lawsuits

The amount of patent infringement lawsuits has sharply increased over the past few years. While obviously some disagreements are going to occur, the Government ...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

August 2, 2016 12:51 pm

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Frank Rusco, director, Natural Resources and Environment, GAO

The amount of patent infringement lawsuits has sharply increased over the past few years. While obviously some disagreements are going to occur, the Government Accountability Office set out to find out the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's role in that uptick. Frank Rusco, director of Natural Resources and Environment at GAO, Federal News Radio's Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin what USPTO can do to stop some frugal cases being brought forward at all.