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USPTO likely to adopt 'peer-to-patent'


By Alex Handy


 Alex Handy
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February 4, 2010 —  (Page 2 of 2)
"I said, 'If I can do it, almost anyone could be able to do it.' It's far less important for someone to be a patent professional than it is to know how to structure Boolean searches."

Kappos said that the project “got a good level of interest. It got positive responses from examiners and the public. [The project's participants] found significant prior art, especially in non-patent literature. That's important in software, where so often it's not patented prior art. Our mission as an agency is to get the best prior art in front of examiners. There clearly is value [in the project].”

Webbink believes Peer-to-Patent will likely be an official USPTO endeavor by the end of the year. The remaining question is whether the project will arrive for a third trial period, or as a full-fledged new method of engagement between the USPTO and the public it serves.


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