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Peer to Patent system

Wired magazine has a story on a new proposal called "Peer to Patent" where inventors could select between the traditional patent system or an internet-based peer review system. The details are missing, so it's hard to support or critique it. One wonders how to manage bias, or negative thoughts toward one particular company or another -- would folks let Microsoft get another patent? Surely the patent applications would be anonymous, but one could probably guess.

I suspect it would change the prior art process as well, as companies would need to more exhaustively find and include prior art -- so as to not include too much (or too little) of their own!

posted by Dana Bostrom @ 19:05