CNN: Program brings Web's collective wisdom to patent process http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-89494/cnn:program-brings-web-s-collective-wisdom-to-patent-process Posts in the discussion thread "CNN: Program brings Web's collective wisdom to patent process" - Some of the biggest players in the technology industry complain that the U.S. patent system is broken -- putting too many patents of dubious merit in the hands of people who can use them to drag companies and other inventors to court. An experimental program aims to give the public, including inventors, more of a voice in the patent system. An experimental program aims to give the public, including inventors, more of a voice in the patent system. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:55:57 +0000 http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-89494#post-261004 CNN: Program brings Web's collective wisdom to patent process http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-89494/cnn:program-brings-web-s-collective-wisdom-to-patent-process#post-261004 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:45:13 +0000 zoobab 2946 "Some of the biggest players in the technology industry complain that the U.S. patent system is broken — putting too many patents of dubious merit in the hands of people who can use them to drag companies and other inventors to court. An experimental program aims to give the public, including inventors, more of a voice in the patent system. An experimental program aims to give the public, including inventors, more of a voice in the patent system. And Blaise Mouttet, a small inventor in Alexandria, Virginia, thinks he knows why. The problem, he said, is that "there are too many lawyers and not enough inventors involved with the patent system.""

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/15/crowdsourcing.patents.ap/index.html

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