One of the many questions about the Trump Administration after its first month is how it views the U.S. patent system. Predicting Patent Policy Under the Trump Administration by Mark Hannemann and his colleagues at Shearman & Sterling, LLP, which seems to borrow from some earlier analysis of Peter Harter and Gene Quinn on the topic (see here, here and here), is an excellent summary of the on-going patent reform debate with informed speculation on where the Trump Administration will come down.
