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[ NNSquad ] Open Season on Patents Starts Thursday, Thanks to Crowdsourced Platform


Open Season on Patents Starts Thursday, Thanks to Crowdsourced Platform

http://j.mp/Ulitl3  (Wired)

  "Hunting season is now open on software patents, and the U.S. Patent
   and Trademark Office, Stack Exchange and Google are teaming up to make
   it easy for geeks to shoot down overbroad and ridiculous patents.
   Thanks to a change in patent law that went into effect this month,
   third parties who think a patent application is flimsy or invalid due
   to previous art or obviousness can now file evidence and comments to
   the USPTO, starting Thursday morning. Previously, it was illegal for
   the USPTO to take outside parties comments into account when
   evaluating a patent application.  Making the process even easier,
   Stack Exchange, the popular Q&A site for coders, has teamed up with
   the Patent Office and Google to crowdsource analysis of patents before
   they are issued."

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Bravo!

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren 
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
 - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org 
 - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
 - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
 - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren 
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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