Peer to Patent
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Peer-to-Patent is a website for collaboratively evaluate patent applications in the U.S. Peer-to-Patent invites the public to share information, knowledge, and expertise with patent examiners about the patent applications that are participating in the pilot. Nearly 6,000 patent examiners for the USPTO labor independently under a backlog approaching 1.2 million applications with 64% of those awaiting first office action. They typically spend no more than 18-20 hours to review each one. Peer-to-Patent allows you to contribute prior art that will be included in the review by the examiners.
Peer to Patent is the first large-scale pilot where self-selected citizens have been directly involved in an authority process via using a web workspace for mass collaboration.
See also
- Peer to Patent homepage
- Beth Simone Noveck: Wiki Government (2009). Book describes the system in detail.
- Open Government Blog
- Office of Science and Technology Policy