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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Open Season on Patents Starts Thursday,
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Thu Sep 20 12:55:47 2012
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:39:32 -0700
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Open Season on Patents Starts Thursday, Thanks to Crowdsourced Platform
http://j.mp/Ulitl3 (Wired)
"Hunting season is now open on software patents, and the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office, Stack Exchange and Google are teaming up to make
it easy for geeks to shoot down overbroad and ridiculous patents.
Thanks to a change in patent law that went into effect this month,
third parties who think a patent application is flimsy or invalid due
to previous art or obviousness can now file evidence and comments to
the USPTO, starting Thursday morning. Previously, it was illegal for
the USPTO to take outside parties comments into account when
evaluating a patent application. Making the process even easier,
Stack Exchange, the popular Q&A site for coders, has teamed up with
the Patent Office and Google to crowdsource analysis of patents before
they are issued."
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Bravo!
--Lauren--
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