Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Patent Office Will Ask The Public To "Peer Review" Inventions

The US Patent and Trademark Office has launched "Peer to Patent," a community patent peer review project. The USPTO is overloaded with patent filings, so it does little or no investigation into patents before rubber-stamping them. IBM has agreed to have its patents vetted by the public as a guinea pig in the project.

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