Utility models solve and avoid the patent trolls turns

(Tyler, Candidate for Juris Doctor, University of Colorado Law School, 2014; Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering and Economics, Northwestern University, 2011.“Would Utility Models Improve American Innovation? Evidence From Brazil, Germany, And The United States,” pg online @ http://www.jthtl.org/content/articles/V12I1/JTHTLv12i1_Boschert.PDF //pa-ef)

As noted in the Introduction to this paper, the American patent system is beset by a range of infirmities that pose a serious threat to innovation in the United States. Foremost among these is the sheer length of time necessary to prosecute a patent application through the USPTO, but several others loom. One such issue, which has received substantial press but is still largely misunderstood by the general public, is a sharp increase in patent trolling.78 These two problems, in combination with others, have led innovators in several fields, most notably software, to begin eschewing the notion of patents completely.79 On first impressions, utility models could arguably address these two major thorns in the side of the American innovator—utility models are quicker and easier to obtain than patents, and they are, under the "weak" utility model system that prevails in the developed world, less valuable to patent trolls because they are much more susceptible to cancellation than patents.80