The US patent office is making some very positive moves to raising the quality of their game. Many, including Geeklawyer, regularly mock them for the sheer quantity of rubbish patents they issue. They are now seeking better systems of input by allowing the public to give targeted input on pending patent applications and prior art. While expressed as a consequence of lobbying by OpenSource groups this is likely to be of as much or more benefit to commercial operations who will now be able to keep a better watch on their own turf.
Hopefully other patent offices will follow the USPTO’s lead on this but, please God, on nothing else.
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