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Nature 429, 493 (3 June 2004) | doi:10.1038/429493a
Pressured staff 'lose faith' in patent quality
Alison Abbott
Examiners at the European Patent Office (EPO) are losing confidence in its ability to ensure the quality of the patents it issues, according to two separate staff surveys.In a survey of some 1,300 patent examiners, conducted by the staff union in April, more than three-quarters agreed with the statement that productivity demands from the EPO's managers did not allow them "to enforce the quality standards set by the European Patent Convention".
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HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
root cause
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Tomcat logs.