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Ray King

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+===Peer to Patent===
-Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
+[[Image:Peer to Patent Logo.jpg|right]]
+Its tough for the [[USPTO]] to get up to speed in all areas for which patent applications are sent to them. That probably has something to do with why they are so backed up and often have to rubber stamp applications without a more in depth review. To address this problem, the [[USPTO]] has launched a pilot program called “[http://peertopatent.jot.com/WikiHome Peer to Patent]” which employs the [[JotSpot]] wiki engine. The idea is to open up the review process and invite the community to help dig up prior art and provide other assistance to the examiners.
+If this takes off, it would be a major change to current patent system — which does need an overhaul. I can imagine that people will game the system and that it will take time to work out the kinks. But that is true with any new system. In the long run, moving from a slow bureaucratic environment to a more collectively governed situation is an important change in thinking which can only propel us in the right direction.
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