Thursday, June 21, 2007

Peer Review Starts for Software Patent Applications

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.

Learn more about it @ http://spectrum.ieee.org/jun07/5275

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