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GGD-94-60R 1 (1993-11-30)

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                  GAOe
      Afl    Uited States
(31411      General Accounting Office
            Washington, D.C. 20548

            General Government Division






            B-255691


            November 30, 1993

            The Honorable Bruce Lehman
            Assistant Secretary and
              Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
            U.S. Department of Commerce

            Dear Mr. Lehman:

            This letter responds to your request for information on
            U.S. companies, views of the U.S. Patent and Trademark
            Office (U.S. PTO) compiled for our report Intellectual
            Property Rights: U.S. Companies' Patent Experiences in
            Japan (GAO/GGD-93-126, July 12, 1993). Specifically, we
            analyzed responses pertaining to U.S. PTO obtained from a
            mail survey we conducted of U.S. companies about their
            patent experiences in Japan, Europe, and the United
            States. In addition, we have attached various tables
            showing the companies' views of U.S. PTO by company type
            (see enc. I), as well as specific comments that U.S.
            company representatives and private patent attorneys made
            to us regarding U.S. PTO (see enc. II).

            APPROACH

            In our report to Senators John D. Rockefeller IV and
            Dennis DeConcini, and former Senator Lloyd Bentsen, we
            reviewed patent protection for U.S. products in Japan as
            compared with that in the United States and Europe. To
            obtain this information, we sent a mail survey in 1992 to
            346 U.S.-based companies that were the leading patent
            holders in the biotechnology, chemical, and semiconductor
            sectors. We received responses from 87 percent of the
            companies.'


            'For a more complete description of the survey
            methodology, see pages 18-21 of Intellectual Property
            Rights: U.S. Companies' Patent Experiences in Japan.
            Also, a profile of the responding companies can be found


GAO/GGD-94-60R U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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