March 5, 2007
Invent Something? Now You Can Game the Patent & Trademark Office
The Patent and Trademark Office is starting a pilot project that will not only post patent applications on the Web and invite comments but also use a community rating system designed to push the most respected comments to the top of the file, for serious consideration by the agency’s examiners. A first for the federal government, the system resembles the one used by Wikipedia, the popular user-created online encyclopedia.
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“I’m sure there will be a degree of gaming. There always is,” [IBM VP and asst. gen. counsel David J.] Kappos said.
Interrrrresting. Read the article.
photo by Alexandre Dulaunoy.
