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Public Successfully Participates in US Patent Examination Process

New York, NY — For the first time in patent history, the general public has successfully used the Internet to help improve the quality of patent applications. The Peer-to-Patent project announced that expert, volunteer reviewers from the general public have...

Peer-to-Patent in BNA

BNA published an article today in which it noted the early positive results seen in conjunction with Peer-to-Patent. Prior art and commentary submitted by members of public under the nine-month old Peer-to-Patent examination project have already weeded out five patent...

Peer to Patent Update

Since the Peer-to-Patent launch on June 15, there have been 245,084 page views from 42,254 unique viewers in 134 different countries/territoriesDownload world_view.pdf Download us_view.pdf 2,017 people have signed up to be reviewers and have cited 175 instances of prior art...

Peer to Patent Update

Since the Peer-to-Patent launch on June 15, there have been 234,669 page views from 41,040 unique viewers in 133 different countries/territories Download World_View.pdf Download us_view.pdf 1,977 people have signed up to be reviewers and have cited 173 instances of prior...

Peer to Patent Update

Since the Peer-to-Patent launch on June 15, there have been 231,415 page views from 40,473 unique viewers in 132 different countries/territories Download World_View.pdf 1,953 people have signed up to be reviewers and have cited 173 instances of prior art on...

Peer to Patent Update

Since the Peer-to-Patent launch on June 15, there have been 231,415 page views from 40,473 unique viewers in 132 different countries/territories Download World_View.pdf 1,953 people have signed up to be reviewers and have cited 173 instances of prior art on...

Peer to Patent Update

Since the Peer-to-Patent launch on June 15, there have been 226,354 page views from 39,635 unique viewers in 132 different countries/territories Download world_view.pdf Download us_view.pdf 1,932 people have signed up to be reviewers and have cited 170 instances of prior...

USPTO Office Actions and Early Peer-to-Patent Results

As of today, the USPTO has examined 10 applications from Peer-to-Patent. The assignees for these patent applications are as follows: 3 applications from IBM 2 applications from Intel 1 application from HP 1 application from Red Hat 1 application from...

New Applications Available for Review

Peer-to-Patent is hosting a number of applications that need your expertise! There are currently 12 applications covering a wide array of inventions, including one by world-famous cryptographer, Whitfield Diffie. Method for configuring a windfarm network (Submitted by GE, available for...

Communications of the ACM on Peer-to-Patent

The latest issue of Communications of the ACM has published an article by Andy Oram supporting Peer-to-Patent. The article, Peer to Patent Needs Your Expertise, is one of the February issue's cover stories. In the article, Oram calls upon ACM...

Peer-to-Patent at linux.conf.au

Brianna Laugher's wrap up of linux.conf.au on All The Modern Things mentions Peer-to-Patent among other high profile patent challenging initiatives. The conference has grown to become one of the most important technical Linux conferences. It is "run by community volunteers...

Noveck in Social Media Today

Social Media Today's Stewart Mader posted a review of Beth Noveck's recent article Wiki-Government. Noveck's article detailed much of the ideology behind Peer-to-Patent, about which Mader agreed: Experts don’t necessarily know more - they’re perceived to know more. What wikis...

Yahoo's claims to originality

Slashdot story on yahoo's patent application: http://yroslashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/1337202 Yahoo's "smart drag-and-drop" patent application at the P2P website describes "A computer-implemented method for manipulating objects in a user interface, comprising: providing the user interface including a first interface object operable ot be...

Peer to Patent Update

Since the Peer-to-Patent launch on June 15, there have been 213,564 page views from 37,741 unique viewers in 132 different countries/territoriesDownload world_view.pdf Download us_view.pdf 1,864 people have signed up to be reviewers and have cited 159 instances of prior art...

Peer-to-Patent in FoundRead

FoundRead, a weblog catered towards all-things startup, posted an article today in support of Peer-to-Patent. The article, written by Carleen Hawn, focused on the potential benefits Peer-to-Patent can provide to a startup company with a patentable idea: [You] can submit...

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