Doesn’t solve innovation and links to politics

(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)

Even if utility models have a positive effect on innovation generally, they may not be appropriate for the American case. Economic research on the subject of utility models suggests that "[w]here th[e] capacity [to conduct innovative research] exists . . . a system that provides incentives to conduct minor, incremental inventions [i.e. a utility model system] is more conducive to growth." 96 In contrast, utility model protection weakly affects innovation and growth in developed countries.97 This is consistent with the trend among developed countries away from utility models, even as the annual quantity of patent applications increases despite continued backlogs in most of the world's major patent offices. Even if decision-makers in the United States were to conclude that establishing some type of utility model protection would be beneficial for American innovation, implementing the utility model system would require changes to many aspects of American law;98 whether American business—and, perhaps more significantly, the American Congress—would have the political and economic stomach to

get such changes right is an open question