Professor Mark A. Lemley is quoted in an Associated Press article about an online patent search website called Peer-To-Patent designed to make the patenting process easier for inventors:

Professor Lemley comments on the challenges facing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today:

Indeed, said Stanford Law School professor Mark Lemley, the challenge facing the Patent Office is to find a balance between awarding patents in order to encourage innovation without making it too easy to obtain a patent that can be used to abuse the system.