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THE trend of the excellent leading article in NATURE of Nov. 9, on “The Grant of Invalid Patents”, is to recommend that more power be entrusted to the Patent Office because of the great evil of expensive patent litigation, but in the course of the article two statements occur which I submit are misleading. The writer says (1) that opposition proceedings before the Comptroller are coming to be used as a cheap method of obtaining an official opinion of validity. Now I believe it to be beyond dispute that the Comptroller's decision has no importance whatever as a certificate of validity, and validity is not a question with which he is at all concerned at the hearing of the opposition proceedings. Definite grounds of opposition are laid down by sec. 11 of the Act, and with them he is alone occupied.
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ROMER, C. The Grant of Invalid Patents. Nature 124, 874–875 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124874b0
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