Report of the President's Commission on the Patent System

Citation
Report of the President's Commission on the Patent System: Report of the President's Commission on the Patent System (1967) (full-text).

Overview
The objectives which the Commission selected were:


 * 1. to raise the quality and reliability of the U.S. patent,
 * 2. to shorten the period of pendency of a patent application from filing to final disposition by the Patent Office,
 * 3.to accelerate the public disclosure of technological advances,
 * 4. to reduce the expense of obtaining and litigating a patent,
 * 5. to make U.S. patent practice more compatible with that of other major countries, wherever consistent with the objectives of the U.S. patent system, and
 * 6. to prepare the patent system to cope with the exploding technology foreseeable in the decades ahead.