Friday, June 22, 2007

Software Patent Applications: Peer Review

How can one guarantee the blindness in this case?

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office begins an unprecedented experiment this week that will allow you (yes, you!) to review software patent applications. The USPTO is hoping the wider community of programmers and engineers will do a better job of spotting bad claims and thereby prevent innovation-killing legal tussles. Read in the spectrum

http://spectrum.ieee.org/jun07/5275

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