December 2011
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Improving Patent Systems through Open Access
On October 20-21, 2011 New York Law School and Queensland University of Technology convened for the Second Annual Prior Art Collaboration Conference hosted by the US Patent and Trademark Office. This second international meeting joined those interested in improving our patent systems to discuss what has been happening, the results of the various Peer To Patent pilots, the assessment of...
November 2011
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Prior Artists Awards
New Office Actions are posted and new Prior Artists have been awarded! Congratulations to our latest recipients whose prior art submissions were referenced by the patent examiner.
Ryan O’Quinn ****
Diane Willis ****
Christopher Ilardi ** Helen Shi ** Alberto Araiza *
Claude Boudoin * Eun Sol Cho * Thomas Irizarry *
Durga Kandasamy *
Paul Merolla * Bindu Nair *
Timothy Myers *
Van...
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Prior Art needed!
These applications have 8 days left on Peer To Patent. Are they inventive? Let us know!
Apoptosis Inhibitor- Nihon University (Japan) Parallel simulation using multiple co-simulators- Rocketick Technologies, LTD. Method/system for processing messages and converged service system- ZTE Corporation
October 2011
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LEAHY–SMITH AMERICA INVENTS ACT
On September 16, 2011 President Obama signed the LEAHY–SMITH AMERICA INVENTS ACT. The Act will help American inventors receive patents on their inventions more efficiently by reducing delays and unnecessary litigation. The Act will also bring the US to the same level as the the majority of the world, by defining the effective filing date of an application as the “actual filing date.”...
Patent Quality Connection
This issue contains:
- Results of the P2P Australia Trial
- What does the Angry Birds Lawsuit say about the Patent System?
- Intellectual Property Office - Peer to Patent Pilot in the UK
- Webinar Recap: Best Practices to Avoid Patent Litigation
- AOP and P2P Featured Reviewers
and
- Featured Researcher
Check it out!
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September Newsletter
The September Newsletter features a “Behind the Technology” article regarding a Vascular Aging Inhibitor and Anti-Aging Formulation application comprising of fish scales and a “Reviewer Tip” article explaining how to use the Research Function.
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New Classifications Added
Peer To Patent, historic in the United States for opening the patent
examination process to public participation, has recently expanded to
incorporate new classifications such as organic compounds, life sciences and
telecommunications. Additionally, Peer To Patent has expanded
internationally with successful completions of the program in both Australia
and Japan. Now, the project is heading...
May 2011
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IPO taps into the wisdom of crowds
Article by Gareth Morgan as featured in Computing
Patent trolls - companies that stake their claims to inventions that they have no interest in building - have blighted the technology industry for years. But a new application process, about to kick off in the UK, could make these pests a thing of the past.
On 1 June, the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) will begin a patent application...
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Peer To Patent UK Launches Newsletter
Welcome to Peer To Patent UK
On June 1st, the Intellectual Property Office will be launching Peer To Patent in the UK.
This newsletter tells you all you will need to know about Peer to Patent, and aims to keep you up to date with the latest news and developments, as the pilot progresses.
You can follow the project on Twitter by clicking this link and then choosing “follow”.
The...
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IPKat to host seminar discussing the Peer To...
The IPKat’s Peer To Patent seminar offers you a unique opportunity to discover what Peer To Patent is all about, how the UK Intellectual Property Office’s experiment will work, how it feels like to participate and what the experts think of it. We already have 38 people signed up, but there’s space for more.
The seminar is FREE and it’s FUN. If you’re a patent-y...
April 2011
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EFF and Peer To Patent File Comments to the USPTO...
EFF along with Professor Jason Schultz, Co-Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology, & Public Policy Clinic at the University of California at Berkeley Law School and Executive Director of the Center for Patent Innovations, Professor Mark Webbink filed a response to the USPTO’s Request for Information on Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review.
Based on the interest generated in...
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"It's a No Brainer": Peer To Patent Adds Value to...
By Christina Segro 2L NYLS
David Kappos, the Director of the USPTO, came to NYLS on Friday, March 25 to talk about Peer To Patent (P2P) and the Patent Reform Act, which overwhelmingly passed the U.S. Senate with a 95-5 vote on March 8, 2011. Kappos spoke about how successful P2P’s two pilots have been and how much positive response they have received.
A “gateway to add more value” to the...
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Peer To Patent Partners with IP.com
Peer To Patent and IP.com today announced a partnership through which Peer To Patent peer reviewers will be provided free access to many of IP.com’s valuable prior art databases. IP.com provides robust Internet services and a wide range of resources and services geared toward interconnecting the worldwide intellectual property community, including a full-text searchable Prior Art Database;...
Gene Patenting: One Size Does Not Fit All
By: Kaydi Osowski 3L NYLS
Just over a year ago, Judge Robert Sweet of the S.D.N.Y. held that the patents held by Myriad Genetics over the BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 genes were invalid. Not only did Judge Sweet hold that the patents on the genes themselves were invalid, but also that the patents covering the process of scanning an individual’s genes for mutations were also invalid. This decision marked...
March 2011
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Patent Prosecution: Combat Involved
by Andrew Smith 3L NYLS
On December 9, 2010, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published US Patent Application 12/857,402, entitled “Squad Vs. Squad Videogame,” assigned to Microsoft.
In 2011, a year that promises shelves of team-based sequels, prequels, midquels, and interquels, the subject matter sounds trite. Go ahead and laugh at the application’s drawings. Crude sketches of...
USPTO Director Dave Kappos to speak at NYLS
The Contours of Strong Patent Policy in the 21st Century
Friday, March 25, 2011, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., Room W400
One year after the conversation with New York Law School, David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, will discuss the efforts taken by the USPTO to ensure a more robust infrastructure of IP rights and...
Patent Quality Connection
We are proud to announce the launch of Patent Quality Connection, a collaboration between Peer To Patent and Article One Partners. This quarterly newsletter is designed to improve patent quality by connecting the global patent community. To subscribe, sign up here.
Patent Quality Connection welcomes all organizations interested in patent quality and global community patent research to become a...
January 2011
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Strength in Numbers
Article by Robert Ambrogi featured in Law Technology News highlights Peer To Patent as a notable website currently utilizing “the collective wisdom of the crowd” to review patent applications.
December 2010
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Peer To Patent Australia Releases Report
Our colleagues at Queensland University of Technology have completed a report on the Peer To Patent Australia pilot project which concluded earlier this year. You can visit the Peer To Patent Australia website to review the applications included in their pilot, or you can download a copy of their First Anniversary Report here.
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White House Open Government Initiative Looks to...
On December 9 the White House Open Government Initiative (OGI) and the U.S. General Services Administration launched ExpertNet, a concept for next generation citizen consultation, namely a government-wide software tool and process to elicit expert public participation. Building on the type of expert social networking community on which Peer To Patent is grounded, the White House is hoping to find...
November 2010
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Voice / Speech Recognition and Organic Compounds...
Today Peer To Patent added its first applications in Class 704 (speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression) and Classes 544 / 549 (organic compounds). This represents Peer To Patent’s initial move into areas of technology outside of computer software and business methods. Please join us in reviewing these applications for prior art. ...
Crowdsourcing can quickly bring together...
Blog by Cheryl Perkins of Innovationedge discussing the value of crowdsourcing in both the private and pubic sector. http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20101119/APC03/11190447/Crowdsourcing-can-quickly-bring-together-collective-knowledge
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Three new applications posted
Two new applications from Microsoft and one from IBM. All are in the field of software.
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New Article on Peer To Patent in the Northwestern...
Daniel Bestor, a patent attorney with McDonnell, Boehnen, Hulbert & Berghoff, and Eric Hamp, a third-year law student at Northwestern University School of Law, have recently published their article, Peer To Patent: A Cure for Our Ailing Patent Examination System, in the Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property (Volume 9, Number 2, November 2010). Worth a read. You can...
Peer To Patent Applicant Consents Can Now Be Filed...
The USPTO has announced that it will now accept filing of applicant consent forms electronically through the EFS - Web. This should ease the filing process and better assure timely review of the consents.
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UK Intellectual Property Office indicates a Peer...
In a press release earlier today the U.K. Intellectual Property Office announced an independent review into how the intellectual property system can better drive growth and innovation has been launched today. This effort, addressed by Prime Minister David Cameron, is part of a Technology Blueprint that spells out how the the U.K. government will support high-tech innovation, including reviewing...
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International Interest in Peer To Patent
On October 14-15, 2010, New York Law School and Queensland University of Technology sponsored a roundtable at World Intellectual Property Organization offices in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss Peer To Patent and the PCT Working Group’s proposed Third Party Observations System. Those in attendance included patent office officials from WIPO, the European Patent Office, German Patent Office,...
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IBM IP Blog: Peer Review Moves Ahead . . . As it...
In the latest blog on Intellectual Property @ IBM Manny Schecter, Chief Patent Counsel at IBM, discusses why it is time for a new Peer To Patent pilot and dismisses some of the common, largely unsubstantiated challenges to Peer To Patent. Read more …
October 2010
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Intellectual Property @ IBM: Peering into the...
IBM weighs in on Peer To Patent in its new IP blog.
http://ibmip.com/2010/10/18/reviving-peer-to-patent/
Peer To Patent and Pharma - Will it help?
In her article “Can Pharma Patents Benefit From The Peer-To-Patent Program?” Courtney Brinckerhoff provides an unbiased view of Peer To Patent and its application to pharmaceutical and biotechnology patents. Her conclusion - probably won’t provide the same prior art contributions as with software and business methods, but it is certainly worth it if you want to advance your...
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Volunteer for Peer To Patent - get a job!
Would volunteering as a peer reviewer for Peer To Patent improve your credentials when applying for a job as an examiner with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office? Premier patent blogger Dennis Crouch thinks so. See his article “Getting a Patent Examiner Job through Peer-to-Patent Volunteerism” on Patently-O.
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Pilot 2011 Starts Today
Eleven New Applications Available For Review!
The Peer To Patent 2011 Pilot starts today and will run through September 30, 2011. Eleven applications have been posted for review, all in subject matter classes covering software. Patent classes covered by these apps include 380 (cryptography), 701 (vehicles, navigation, and relative location), 706 (artificial intelligence), 707 (database and file...
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NYLS Launches New Peer To Patent Pilot
A new Peer To Patent pilot was announced today in separate press releases from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and New York Law School. Building on the success of the first pilot that lasted from June 2007 to June 2009, this new pilot will test the ability of the project to scale, both in volume and across subject matter areas. The maximum number of applications to be processed in this...
September 2010
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Peer To Patent Australia Completes Peer Review...
The peer review phase of the inaugural Peer To Patent Australia pilot project is now complete. In all, 31 pending patent applications put forward voluntarily by participating applicants were reviewed by the community of peer reviewers. During the six months the peer review phase ran, the community of peer reviewers generated 106 prior art references in response to the 31 participating patent...
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WIPO Considers Peer To Patent Approach
In a document released May 17, 2010, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released its latest proposal for a Peer To Patent-type system for allowing third parties to contribute prior art and commentary at the international phase of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications. This document elicits comment from members of the PCT Working Group on such a system. The concept is to...
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USPTO Director David Kappos at NYLS, Friday 3/26...
Director of the USPTO, David Kappos, to Speak at New York Law School on the Future of the Patent Office New York, NY (2010)—David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), will give a talk titled “Vision for the USPTO in the 21st Century: Ensuring America’s Innovation Future,” on Friday, March 26 at 1 p.m....
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USPTO Seeks Feedback on Patent Quality
In a Federal Register notice published on December 9, 2009, the USPTO is seeking feedback on its patent quality initiatives and seeking suggestions on new activities that may improve patent quality. Specifically, the USPTO wishes to focus on improving the process for obtaining the best prior art, preparation of the initial application, and examination and prosecution of the application. The...
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Peer To Patent Australia Launches
Peer-to-Patent Australia, a project based on the successful Peer-to-Patent project run out of the New York Law School (NYLS) in the United States, launches December 9. The project, run by Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in cooperation with IP Australia, is the result of the collaborative efforts between QUT and NYLS.
Designed to improve patent examination and the quality of patents,...
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An Inside Look at the Peer To Patent System:
It...