Luis, While we're distracting you from studying, could you describe the collaborative comment submission process in a bit more detail? The whole point of the project is to push towards collaborative research and we're on the look out for good, specific ideas for how to do this. Beth On Apr 4, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Luis Villa wrote: > On 4/4/07, Eric Hestenes <erichestenes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> April 16 -- p2pdevelopers list members can join testing > > Great. (Of course, I'll be swamped with exams around then, but hey, a > man can dream.) > >> (2) The mechanism for providing commentary on prior art has been >> changed as >> follows. We have removed the threaded discussion area and replaced >> it with a >> mechanism that allows each registered user to provide a single >> comment. The >> top ten applications will be forwarded to the patent examiner >> along with all >> the provided comments. Users can still have threaded discussions >> for each >> patent application, but that threaded discussion will not be >> forwarded to >> the examiner. > > Will there be a way to promote information out of that threaded > conversation into a comment, or some other relationship between them? > More simply, could multiple users collaborate to submit a comment > together? It seems like, at least long term, you'd like participants > in a threaded conversation to be able to say 'this is the conclusion > of our conversation, which we'd like to be treated as our collective > comment.' That might both streamline the amount of information given > to the examiners (fewer comments from the same pool of people), while > (hopefully) encouraging constructive deliberation instead of just > meandering or flaming. > > Luis > _______________________________________________ > p2patent-developer mailing list > p2patent-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/p2patent-developer _______________________________________________ p2patent-developer mailing list p2patent-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/p2patent-developer
