An article by Michael Hoffman:

``The US Patent and Trademark Office has received praise for officially launching the Peer to Patent program – the purpose of Peer to Patent is to find patents that have been issued for already made products or items that don't properly qualify for a patent. Because the USPTO usually does not have the manpower and time to thoroughly check every patent that comes into the office, many are unjustly rubber stamped. A New York law school helped develop the Peer to Patent program that will help ease the workload of `underpaid and overwhelmed' patent examiners. The pilot program will officially begin on May 12.''

Full story:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2217

URL

http://peertopatent.jot.com/WikiHome

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