Here is a great article on patent quality from Sara-Jayne Adams at IAM-Magazine – Quality is the key to a bright patent future.

Sara-Jayne interviewed the following people for the article:

• Jonathan Barney, Managing Director of Ocean Tomo
• Alison Brimelow, President of the European Patent Office
• John Dudas, UNder Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO
• Douglas Clark, Managing Partner, Lovells, Shanghai, China
• Carl Horton, Chief IP Counse, General Electric Co
• Tom Ewing, IP Value Added Consultant
• Horacio Gutuerrez, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, IP & Licensing, Microsoft
• Masanobu Katoh, Corporate VP and President, Law & IP, Fujitsu
• Lisa Kellberg, Corporate VP and Head of Corporate Patents, Novo Nordisk
• Judge Pauline Newman, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit
• Sherry Knowles, Senior VP, Corpoate IP, GlaxoSmithKline
• Chris Mercer, Presidento of the EPI
• Stephen Potter, Director and immediate past chair of the R&D Society (UK)
• Manny Schecter, Associate General Counsel, IP Law IBM
• Peter Spours, Director IP Transactions & Strategy, TomTom
• Marian Underweiser, IP Law Counsel, IP Law Strategy & Policy, IBM
• Margareta Ydreskog, Group Patent Manager, Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Saab

(Sara-Jayne also asked me to add a few thoughts. Let me know what you think.)