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BLOG@IP::JURPatent Attorney Axel H Horns' Blog on Intellectual Property Law.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006NYTimes.com: U.S. Office Joins an Effort to Improve Software Patents. Mr. John Markoff writes in the New York Times:"[...] The United States Patent and Trademark Office plans to announce today that it will cooperate with open-source software developers on three initiatives that it says will improve the quality of software patents. [...]"According to Mr. Markoff, two of the initiatives would rely on recently developed Internet technologies. In particular, an open patent review program would set up a system on the patent office Web site where visitors could submit search criteria and subscribe to electronic alerts about patent applications in specific areas. The report then says that the third initiative is focused on the creation of a patent quality index that would serve as a tool for patent applicants to use in writing their applications. It is based on work done by R. Polk Wagner, an intellectual property expert at the University of Pennsylvania."[...] One frequent critic of the patent system, Gregory Aharonian, publisher of The Internet Patent News Service, said it was unlikely that the new initiatives would have a significant impact, because the patent office was not able to deal efficiently with the information it already had. [...]"OK, let's wait and see. I think that altogether it is an interesting initiative. [UPDATE_0 2005-01-10] See also news and debate at Groklaw.
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