The Workshops

The purpose of the Community Patent Review Workshops is to solicit input to enable the design of the community patent review system.

These small-group working sessions will bring together participants with diverse backgrounds, including those with deep patent experience and those with other expertise that might be useful and relevant to building this expert consultation system.

Hosted by preeminent faculty at leading universities and convened by Professor Beth Noveck, Director, Democracy Design Workshop, New York Law School, the Workshops will meet around the country during Spring 2006.

Each Workshop focuses on a specific issue that must be identified and addressed in order to build the software and system and develop a useable process for peer review of patents.

In addition to these face-to-face sessions, which are intentionally small in order to ensure maximum discussion and productive work, input can be submitted via this website or via email to: communitypatent@nyls.edu

The Workshops will gather concrete suggestions for moving from proposal to prototype. These are not conferences; they are design sessions geared toward drafting a technical, legal and procedural specification for a working system.

IBM has committed to build a pilot implementation of the software.