SD Times: USPTO likely to adopt 'peer-to-patent' http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-216853/sd-times:uspto-likely-to-adopt-peer-to-patent Posts in the discussion thread "SD Times: USPTO likely to adopt 'peer-to-patent'" - Kappos said that the project “got a good level of interest. It got positive responses from examiners and the public. [The project's participants] found significant prior art, especially in non-patent literature. That's important in software, where so often it's not patented prior art. Our mission as an agency is to get the best prior art in front of examiners. There clearly is value [in the project]." Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:39:45 +0000 http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-216853#post-692105 SD Times: USPTO likely to adopt 'peer-to-patent' http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-216853/sd-times:uspto-likely-to-adopt-peer-to-patent#post-692105 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:40:22 +0000 ggiedke 32664 "Kappos said that the project “got a good level of interest. It got positive responses from examiners and the public. [The project's participants] found significant prior art, especially in non-patent literature. That's important in software, where so often it's not patented prior art. Our mission as an agency is to get the best prior art in front of examiners. There clearly is value [in the project]." "

Source: http://www.sdtimes.com/link/34113

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