International trade : federal action needed to help small businesses address foreign patent challenges.

Analyzes whether small businesses face impediments in obtaining foreign patent protection, what impact any impediments have on their foreign patent decisions, and whether any federal actions could help small businesses overcome the impediments they may face in obtaining foreign patents.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. General Accounting Office, [2002]
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Online Access:https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS34659
Description
Summary:Analyzes whether small businesses face impediments in obtaining foreign patent protection, what impact any impediments have on their foreign patent decisions, and whether any federal actions could help small businesses overcome the impediments they may face in obtaining foreign patents.
Item Description:Title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 2, 2003).
"July 2002."
Paper version available from: General Accounting Office, 441 G St., NW, Rm. LM, Washington, D.C. 20548.
"GAO-02-789."
Electronic resource.
Format:System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Mode of access: Internet from GPO Access web site. Address as of 10/02/03: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=gao&docid=f:d02789.pdf; current access available via PURL.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.