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Peer-to-Patent Pilot Releases Report Demonstrating Success of Public
Participation in Patent Process
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| Peer-to-Patent, the groundbreaking Web-based governmental “social networking”
| project, has released a report on the results of its one-year pilot.
| Peer-to-Patent seeks to improve patent quality by connecting the United
| States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to an open network of scientific
| and technical experts to enhance the patent examination process.
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http://www.nyls.edu/pages/6449.asp
Related:
Patent reform dead for 2008
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| The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open
| source.
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| That’s because one of the act’s main aims was to end “forum shopping,” the
| practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which
| never saw a patent plaintiff it didn’t like.
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| The act would have also streamlined reviews of patent claims and made some
| other important reforms. It wasn’t perfect, but it was better than nothing.
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| [...]
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| To me, the most effective form of patent reform was not on the table. That
| is, eliminate software patentability entirely. Copyright provides plenty of
| protection, and what you’re patenting, in the end, is math.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2435
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