What is the Steady-State Patent Allowance Rate?

by Dennis Crouch This post continues from two prior data-posts: Crouch, USPTO Allowance Rate, Patently-O (November 2, 2016) Crouch, Pending Patent Applications, Patently-O (November 1, 2016) Adding-in data from the USPTO Chief Economist (Alan Marco), I have updated my chart of the USPTO utility patent grant rate. The chart shows my verson of patent grant rate calculated […]