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Saturday, May 06, 2006

USPTO in a Partnership with Academia and the Private Sector to Launch an On-Line, Peer Review Pilot Project.

The Peer-To-Peer Patent Project just

announces:

"[...] The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will hold a briefing on May 12, 2006, from 9:00 a.m. to noon in the agency's Madison building, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA. The USPTO has created a partnership with academia and the private sector to launch an online, peer review pilot project that seeks to ensure that patent examiners will have improved access to all available prior art during the patent examination process.

As a follow-up to the February 16th meeting, this briefing will focus on further developing previously discussed initiatives as well as answering the question of what constitutes valid prior art and a greater in-depth analysis of the peer review pilot project that is under consideration. [...]"

See also my earlier posting

here. Ms. Beth Simove Noveck recently has published

a revised version of her related White Paper.

The Peer-to-Peer pilot project is backed, inter alia, by IBM. Although I am not in a position to provide any specific forecast of the final results effectively obtainable by this pilot projekt I think that I should recommend to all patent profesionals throughout Europe to closely monitor its activities because of it appears to have a huge potential to change patent practice in future.

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