The Peer to Patent Project - Community Patent Review

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Press Releases

July 9, 2007 - "Patent Applications From Microsoft, IBM and Intel Now Open for Public Review"
http://www.nyls.edu/pages/5710.asp

Jun 19, 2007 - "Peer to Patent Pilot Launches"
http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/06/18/peer-to-patent-pilot-launches

Jun 18, 2007 - "United States Patent & Trademark Office Begins Pilot Program to Open Patent Examination Process for Online Public Participation"
http://www.nyls.edu/pages/5675.asp

Jun 15, 2007 - "USPTO to Test Impact of Public Input on Improving Patent Quality in the Computer Technologies"
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/speeches/07-21.htm
Peer Reviewed Prior Art Pilot
http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/peerpriorartpilot

Jan 23, 2007 - "New York Law School Announces Two New Members of the Community Patent Review Project Team" http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/pressrelease_012307.html

Nov 28, 2006 - "Advisory Board for Community Patent Review Announced"
http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/pressrelease_112806.html

Nov 8, 2006 - "Omidyar Network Awards a $500,000 Grant to New York Law School's Community Patent Review Project"
http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/pressrelease_110806.html

Oct 24, 2006 - "The Community Patent Review pilot is a project of the New York Law School Institute for Information Law & Policy in collaboration with the USPTO that aims to improve the quality of issued patents by giving the patent examiner access to better information by means of an open network for community peer review of patent applications." http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/pressrelease_102406.html

Oct 20, 2006 - "GE To Put Its 'Imagination at Work' For Patent Reform by Becoming Lead Sponsor of Community Patent Review" http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/pressrelease_GE.html

Sep 8, 2006 - "International Characters to Participate In Community Patent Review Project" http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/pressrelease_InternationalCharacters.html

Aug 29, 2006 - "USPTO to Implement Patent Reform Project Developed by New York Law School's Institute for Information Law & Policy: Community Patent Review Project Will Open Patent Examination Process to Online Peer Review, Using Web-Based Technologies to Connect Scientific Experts and the Patent Office." http://dotank.nyls.edu/pressrelease_082906.html

Aug 17, 2006 - "Community Patent Review Initiative Welcomes HP as Lead Sponsor and Participant" http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/pressrelease_HP.html

Aug 2, 2006 - "Out of the Box Computing to Support Community Patent Review Initiative" http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/pressrelease_OutoftheBox.html

Jul 28, 2006 - "Red Hat to Support Community Patent Review Initiative" http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/pressrelease_RedHat.html

Jul 14, 2006 - "Microsoft Signs On as a Lead Sponsor and Participant in the Community Patent Review Initiative" http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/pressrelease_Microsoft.html

May 12, 2006 - USPTO Holds Briefing on Patent Peer Review Pilot Project http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/pressrelease_051206.html

Jan 10, 2006 - IBM Press Release: "IBM Leads in U.S. Patents for Thirteenth Consecutive Year; Introduces Initiatives for Improved Patent Quality." http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19101.wss

Press Articles

Sept 24, 2007 - Technology Review: "Opening Up the Patent Process"
Sept 6, 2007 - The Economist: "A patent improvement"
Aug 14, 2007 - Linux.com: "Peer-to-Patent pilot steers toward change"
Aug 13, 2007 - Forbes: "Wiki-Patents" (subscription required)
Aug 6, 2007 - Managing Intellectual Property: "MIP Reveals the Most Influential People in IP" (subscription required)
Jul 18, 2007 - Nature: "Patent examiners call in the jury" (subscription required)
Jul 15, 2007 - New York Times: "A Patent Is Worth Having Right? Well, Maybe Not"
Jul 14, 2005 - Wired: "Web Could Unclog Patent Backlog"
Jul 10, 2007 - Tech Policy Summit Blog: "The USPTO Wants You!"
Jul 10, 2007 - Groklaw: "New Patent Applications Up For Public Review on Peer to Patent – One from MS"
Jul 10, 2007 - EDN: "Electronics industry hones in on specific patent-reform provisions"
Jul 9, 2007 - Ars Technica: "Peer-to-Patent site reviews patents from Microsoft, IBM, and Intel"
Jul 5, 2007 - Slashdot: "A Simple Plan To Defeat Dumb Patents"
Jun 30, 2007 - BBGM: "Peer reviewing the patent system"
Jun 28, 2007 - O’Reilly Radar: "Peer-to-Patent: Helping out the USPTO"
Jun 28, 2007 - CrunchGear: PatentMonkey: "Peer Patent Review Starts, Goes to SecondLife"
Jun 27, 2007 - Nanodot: "Patent peer review: now software, soon nanotechnology?"
Jun 25, 2007 - AP: "Infringement woes plague patent project"
Jun 24, 2007 - Washington Post: "Peer-to-Patent allows public to find prior art"
Jun 21, 2007 - Slashdot: "Peer Review Starts for Software Patents"
Jun 20, 2007 - Digital Media Wire: "U.S. Patent Office to Test Public Participation in Patent Exam Process"
Jun 20, 2007 - IEEE Spectrum: "Peer Review Starts for Software Patent Applications"
Jun 19, 2007 - Your 2nd Place: "Peer2Patent.org Event Redux "
Jun 19, 2007 - PresseBox: "Peer-to-Patent Pilot Launches"
Jun 19, 2007 - Redmondmag.com: "U.S. Patent Office Opens Patent Examination Process"
Jun 19, 2007 - Offenes-Presseportal.de: "Peer-to-Patent Pilot Launches"
Jun 19, 2007 - Golem.de: "Peer-Review des US-Patentamts hat begonnen" (Original in German. English translation here.)
Jun 19, 2007 - PCGo: "Peer-Review des US-Patentamts hat begonnen" (Original in German. English translation here.)
Jun 19, 2007 - heise online: "Europäisches Patentamt hält an Softwarepatenten fest" (Original in German. English translation here.)
Jun 18, 2007 - Intellectual Property Today: "United States Patent and Trademark Office Begins Pilot Program to Open Patent Examination Process for Online Public Participation"
Jun 18, 2007 - Second Life insider: "Peer to patent discussion in SL"
Jun 18, 2007 - WomensBiz.us: "Patent Examination Opens for Online Public Participation"
Jun 18, 2007 - Digital Media Wire: "U.S. Patent Office to Test Public Participation in Patent Exam Process"
Jun 18, 2007 - LinuxWorld: "Free QA for patent trolls? Why?"
Jun 18, 2007 - CNet: "Posts tagged 'patent office'"
Jun 18, 2007 - Live Digitally: "USPTO Launching P2P Patent Review"
Jun 18, 2007 - Securities Industry News: "U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Begins Peer-to-Patent Pilot"
Jun 18, 2007 - Dr.Dobb's Journal: "Peer-to-Patent Pilot Program"
Jun 17, 2007 - beSpacific: "USPTO Begins Pilot Program to Open Patent Examination Process for Online Public Participation"
Jun 16, 2007 - Patently-O: "Peer-to-Patent: Live"
Jun 15, 2007 - Federal News Radio: "Improving the Patent Process" (8:23 min WMA file)
USPTO Commissioner for Patents John Doll talked with Max Cacas and Patrick Spence on the Daily Debrief about the Peer-to-Patent project.
Jun 13, 2007 - Red Herring: "Social Networking for Patents"
Jun 12, 2007 - ZDNet: "Peer-to-Patent site relies on public for prior art"
Jun 12, 2007 - InfoWorld: "US Patent Office experiments with open source (approach)"
Jun 11, 2007 - Slashdot: "Patent Office Program To Speed Computer Tech"
Jun 11, 2007 - BNA's Patent Trademark & Copyright Journal: "PTO Launches Prior Art Review Program, Sets Forth Rules in Official Gazette Notice" (Subscription Only)
Jun 11, 2007 - IndustryWeek: "Pilot Program Gives Public Chance To Comment On Patent Applications"
Jun 11, 2007 - BetaNews: "US Patent Office to Try 'Open Source' Approach"
Jun 8, 2007 - Ars Technica: "Peer-to-Patent Project begins one-year trial run next week"
Jun 7, 2007 - Groklaw: "Peer to Patent Begins June 15"
Jun 7, 2007 - Houston Chronicle: "Patent Office Plans Peer Review Project"
Jun 6, 2007 - NY Times: "Administration Seeks Overhaul of Patent System"
May 29, 2007 - Law 360: "Uncle Sam Wants You...To Examine Patent Claims"
May 22, 2007 - ITIF: "Patents Pending: Patent Reform for the Innovation Economy"
May 21, 2007 - Federal Computer Weekly: "Government taps the power of us: Officials turn to blogs and wikis to share information and achieve goals" (See also FCW Events)
Apr 9, 2007 - Nanodot: "Nanotechnology patent problems blamed on unionization"
Apr 8, 2007 - Patently-O: "Pin-Citing Prior Art"
Apr 2, 2007 - Science Business: "Will peer-to-patents fly?"
Mar 29, 2007 - Associated Press: "Small Businesses Call for Patent Reform"
Mar 28, 2007 - MarketWatch: "Tech companies pile on patents, complain about clutter"
Mar 28, 2007 - Seattle Post Intelligencer: "Head of community patent review project funded by tech giants deflects infringement concerns"
Mar 26, 2007 - GovExec.com: "Project to streamline patent reviews nearing launch"
Mar 26, 2007 - National Journal: March 26 ITIF Peer to Patent Forum (Subscription Required)
Mar 19, 2007 - National Law Journal: "Peer-Reviewed Patent Applications: A quixotic undertaking"
Mar 12, 2007 - The Journal News.com: "U.S. Patent and Trademark Office seeks to build community of experts on Web"
Mar 9, 2007 - IEEE-USA Today's Engineer: "The Perspiration of Patenthood"
Mar 5, 2007 - Washington Post: "Open Call From the Patent Office"

Follow-up Discussions:

Mar 6, 2007 - Slashdot: " USPTO Peer Review Process To Begin Soon"
Mar 6, 2007 - CrunchGear: "Patent Applications Meet Social Review"
Mar 6, 2007 - Silicon Valley Watcher: " 3.5.07 Patent Office 2.0?"
Mar 5, 2007 - 901am: "United States Patent and Trademark Office Goes Social"
Mar 5, 2007 - All Points Blog: "Let them read and comment on U.S. patent applications"
Mar 5, 2007 - Wired Blogs: 27B Stroke 6: "The Patent Office Wants You"
Mar 5, 2007 - USA Today: Kevin Maney: "The wiki Patent Office"
Mar 5, 2007 - SmartMobs: "Patent Office opening reviews online in ‘revolutionary switch’"
Mar 5, 2007 - ZDNet Government: "Patent Office 2.0?"
Mar 5, 2007 - Mathewingram.com/work

Articles:

Mar 5, 2007 - The Wall Street Journal: "Pilot Patent Project to Premiere Pronto"
Mar 5, 2007 - American Public Media Marketplace: "Maybe Wikipedia should patent the idea" (Audio)
Mar 6, 2007 - Computerworld: "USPTO does Web 2.0 (and hilarious employee vid)"
Mar 6, 2007 - TechShout! India: "Patent Reviewing Process Goes the Web Way"
Mar 6, 2007 - "Patent Process Goes High-tech" (Playfuls.com:) (Post Chronicle) (United Press International)
Mar 5, 2007 - Guardian Unlimited UK: "Amazing news! US Patent Office gets a clue!"
Mar 5, 2007 - ZDNet USA: "Web 2.0 meets the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office"
Mar 5, 2007 - WebProNews: "Patent and Trademark Office to Enable Comments"

Mar 1, 2007 - Managing Intellectual Property: "Red Hat enters the patent ring" (Subscription required)
Feb 28, 2007 - San Diego Source: "IP experts agree quality patents needed, but disagree over best way to improve"
Feb 26, 2007 - Patently-O: "Community Review: Volunteers?"
Feb 9, 2007 - BNA's Patent Trademark & Copyright Journal: "PTO General Counsel Cautious On Role of Open Source Code Databases" (Subscription Only)
Feb 8, 2007 - Patently-O: "Peer-to-Patent Expected To Launch in April 2007"
Jan 29, 2007 - Corante: "Against Well-designed Reputation Systems (An Argument for Community Patent)"
Jan 24, 2007 - O'Reilly Radar: "Patent Reform Project Looking for RoR Help"
Jan 19, 2007 - Wikinomics: "Reinventing the invention system"
Jan 11, 2007 - InternetNews.com: "IBM Leads 2006 Patent Hike"
Jan 11, 2007 - Business Wire: "IBM Sets Record for Most U.S. Patents Earned in One Year"
Dec 26, 2006 - Managing Intellectual Property: "Peer review project: advisory board appointed"
Dec 19, 2006 - Legalbrief: " UK applications to be peer reviewed?"
Dec 15, 2006 - The Register: "Patent applications to be peer reviewed?"
Dec 14, 2006 - ZDNet USA: "U.K. considers wiki to ease patent bottleneck" (See also CNET)
Dec 13, 2006 - ZDNet UK: "Patent Office considers Wiki peer review" (See also #23 on QuickLinks - 28 January 2007)
Dec 11, 2006 - Mondaq News Alerts: "United Kingdom: Gowers Review Of Intellectual Property Law – An Analysis" (Subscription required)
Nov 14, 2006 - WRAL Local Tech Wire: "The Peer-To-Patent Project: An Answer To Poor Patent Quality?"
Nov 6, 2006 - CA Press: "CA Joins Community Patent Review Project as Lead Sponsor and Participant"
Nov 2, 2006 - Slashdot: "Community Patent Review Project Announced"
Nov 1, 2006 - Xinhua: "New U.S. system to review software patents"
Oct 23, 2006 - IT News: "IBM wants to lead on patent reform"
Oct 19, 2006 - GovExec.com: " Agency will test community reviews of patents"
Oct 17, 2006 - New York Law Journal: "Pilot Program: Peer Review for Patent Applications"
Oct 16, 2006 - Information Today: "The Patent System on Tilt: IBM Seeks to Change the Game"
Sep 26, 2006 - New York Times: "Hoping to Be a Model, I.B.M. Will Put Its Patent Filings Online"
Sep 1, 2006 - BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal: "Community Patent Review Highlighted in Two Projects" (Subscription Only)
Aug 30, 2006 - Legalbrief: "The murky world of public patenting" (Subscription Only)
Aug 29, 2006 - Slashdot: "Patent Review via Community Not Wiki-based"
Aug 28, 2006 - ZDNet News: "Wiki site aims to boost patent review process"
Aug 26, 2006 - Copywrite.org: "Peer to Patent Project greenlighted"
Aug 21, 2006 - The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: "Can Wikis Fix the Patent Process?"
Aug 21, 2006 - Fortune Magazine: "Patent review goes Wiki" (See also commentary at Slashdot and at TinyScreenfuls.com)
Jul 15, 2006 - SD Times: "Patent Issues Stir Debate" (PDF)
Jun 5, 2006 - Odeo: "Peer to Patent: Collective Intelligence for Our Intellectual Property System"
May 23, 2006 - NewsForge: "OSAPA Initiative Will Combat Unworthy Software Patents"
May 23, 2006 - PC Pro Magazine: "Patent system opens up to the public"
May 23, 3006 - ZDNet.com: "Politicos Ponder Patent System Changes"
May 19, 2006 - Science: "PTO Wants to Tap Experts to Help Patent Examiners"
May 17, 2006 - Pund-IT, Inc.: "Community Patent Review Pilot Project Debuts"
May 15, 2006 - Intellectual Property and the Public Sphere: "Community Patent Project"
May 12, 2006 - I/P Updates Weekly: "USPTO Meeting on Patent Peer Review Pilot Project Launch"
May 12, 2006 - FCW.com: "USPTO Proposes Pilot of Peer to Patent Program"
May 12, 2006 - OnTheCommons.org: "A New Commons to Improve Patents: The Community Patent Project"
May 12, 2006 - PajamasMedia: "Community Patent Review Project to Be Subject of May 12 USPTO Briefing"
May 12, 2006 - Pierce Law IP New Blog: "Patent Office Looks at Peer Reviews"
May 10, 2006 - p2pnet: "Meet Peer To Patent"
May 10, 2006 - Very Spatial: "Peer to Patent - Public Review of Patent Applications"
May 10, 2006 - Great News Network: "U.S. Patent Office to Use Wiki-based Peer Reviews of Patent Applications"
May 10, 2006 - Heise Online: "Strike at European Patent Office"
May 9, 2006 - Deaglan on WordPress: "The Peer to Patent Project"
May 9, 2006 - CNNMoney.com: "Deluged Patent Office Puts Peer Volunteers to Work"
May 9, 2006 - Slashdot: "USTPO to Use Peer to Patent Program"
May 9, 2006 - Groklaw: "USTPO Workshop on the Peer to Patent Project Friday"
May 9, 2006 - Always Beta: "Patents and Peer Review: A Match Made in Heaven"
May 9, 2006 - Ars Technica: "'Peer to Patent' Aims to Fix the USPTO"
May 9, 2006 - DailyTech: "US Patent and Trademark Office to Use Peer to Patent Program"
May 9, 2006 - News--Published from Outside: "Patent Office Will Ask The Public To "Peer Review" Inventions"
May 9, 2006 - LinuxElectrons: "USPTO to Hold Briefing on Patent Peer Review Pilot Project"
May 8, 2006 - Patently-O: Patent Law Blog: "USPTO's Patent Peer Review Pilot Project"
May 8, 2006 - BoingBoing.net: "Patent office will ask the public to "peer review" inventions"
May 8, 2006 - WNN Wi-Fi Net News: "Peer Review of Patents"
May 8, 2006 - I/P Updates: "USPTO Meeting on Patent Peer Review Pilot Project Launch"
May 8, 2006 - WebProNews.com: "Patent Office Preps Peer Review"
May 8, 2006 - Opendotdotdot: "Now There's An Idea...Peer Review of Patents"
May 8, 2006 - Earth: Mostly Harmless: "Patent Office Will Ask the Public to "Peer Review" Inventions"
May 8, 2006 - JosephPalmer.com: "Good Idea, But Where Are The Pizzas and Beer?"
May 5, 2006 - SmartMobs: "SPTO to Consider Peer to Patent"
Feb 20, 2006 - Information Week: "The U.S. Patent System In Crisis"
Jul 14, 2005 - Wired News: "Web Could Unclog Patent Backlog,"
Jan 10, 2006 - New York Times: "U.S. Office Joins an Effort to Improve Software Patents"
Jan 9, 2006 - CNet: "IBM taps open source to improve patent quality"
Jan 9, 2006 - Reuters: "IBM says it earned most U.S. patents for 13th year"
Jan 10, 2006 - The Journal News: "Tops in inventions for 13th time, Big Blue leads initiative to weed out junk patents"
Jan 10, 2006 - ComputerWorld: "Program launched to improve patent quality: IBM, open source to play big roles "
Jan 10, 2006 - CIO: "Patent Office to Cooperate with IBM, Open Source Community"
Jan 10, 2006 - Red Herring: "IBM Presses for Open Patents: The reigning king of U.S. patents pushes the patent office to open its closed system to public search and study"
Nice quote from IBM's Manny Schecter: "We've been saying that for the innovation system to work, patents have to be of high quality," said Manny Schecter, IBM Associate General Counsel. "We are trying to apply the collaborative innovation concept to improving the patent system."
Jan 10, 2006 - LinuxInsider: "IBM Teams With OSDL, USPTO on Patent Quality Initiative"
Jan 10, 2006 - TechWorld: "Open-source software revolutionises patent system"
Jan 10, 2006 - eWeek: "IBM Aims to Improve Patents"
Jan 10, 2006 - CNN: "IBM: We're still the patent champ"
Jan 10, 2006 - eWEEK: "IBM Aims to Improve Patents "
Jan 10, 2006 - Information Week: "IBM In Drive To Improve Quality Of U.S. Patents"
Jan 10, 2006 - InternetNews.com :"USPTO Joins Patent Quality Cause"
Jan 10, 2006 - Slashdot: "Open-source Overhauls Patent System"
Jan 10, 2006 - IDG: "Open-source software revolutionises patent system"
Jan 10, 2006 - EE Times: "IBM in drive to improve quality of U.S. patents"
Jan 10, 2006 - Computer Business: "IBM to help identify key patent applications"
Jan 11, 2006 - VNU.net: "US Patent Office announces open source partnership"
Jan 10, 2006 - The Journal News: "Tops in inventions for 13th time, Big Blue leads initiative to weed out junk patents"
Jan 10, 2006 - International Herald Tribune: "U.S. tackles conflicts over rights to software patents"
Jan 10, 2006 - Denver Post: "IBM gets most U.S. patents; 50 from Colorado facilities"
Jan 10, 2006 - Tucson Citizen: "IBM's Tucson unit collects 100 U.S. patents in 2005"
Jan 10, 2006 - San Jose Business Journal: "H-P ranks third in down year for US patents"
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