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Open Call from the Patent Office
I thought this Washington Post article did a good job of explaining, in laymen terms, the Patent and Trademark Office's trial use of the internet in "wiki"-style solicitation of feedback from the public for consideration by the agency's examiners when looking at certain patents.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/04/AR2007030401263.html
Companies are volunteering to have their patents reviewed via the Internet, including Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle, and IBM. Apparently the program will begin primarily with applications in the software design realm.
Some of the blog entries that the article links to are also interesting...
Posted by at March 28, 2007 12:35 AM
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