Google CEO Praises USPTO's Use of Peer-to-Patent

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Google CEO Applauds USPTO's Efforts Peer-to-Patent An Example of Open Government Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the New America Foundation, and a member of President-Elect Barack Obama's Transition Economic Advisory Board, addressed a packed auditorium at the Ronald Reagan Building on Tuesday, November 18th. Schmidt provided insight into the junction of technology and government, stressing that solid infrastructure is the key to an efficient and effective government, and using the internet as the model for how government should approach the current fiscal crisis facing our nation and the world. He also pressed the need for open networks and systems as a foundation for innovation. Schmidt had this to say about the USPTO and their use of Peer-to-Patent: "The Patent and Trademark Office, which is as overloaded as its ever been, they're running a very significant experiment where they publish the patent applications early for public comment.  And guess what, all the players who cared deeply about this bizarre and nerdy patent really go after it because there's no way where their patent examiners can fundamentally get all the insight that the wisdom of crowds can do.  Why is that not true of every branch of government?  It makes perfect sense, use all those people who care so passionately, and who have a lot of free time, to help you." A video of the speech is available here. New Business Method Patent Applications Available for Review Lend Your Expertise to the Examination Process Peer-to-Patent recently posted 6 new applications for review, including two new patent applications for business methods.  One application, submitted by Yahoo!, relates to a microcurrency exchange system.  For a large online company such as Yahoo!, there are various owned and operated businesses that can leverage a microcurrency economy.  For example, Yahoo! Answers rewards points to users for participation which can be redeemed through a number of Yahoo!'s services, such as towards a Yahoo! Music subscription.  However, for many small businesses and online sites, it is difficult to build, operate, and maintain a microeconomy using an isolated microcurrency payment system.  The application describes a system that includes a microcurrency mechanism configured to coordinate interoperation of a plurality of microcurrency payment systems, each associated with one of a plurality of online commerce systems.  This application will be available for review until February 19, 2009.   Another application for a business method was submitted by GE.  The application relates to healthcare information systems.  Studies have demonstrated that clinical outcomes perceived as excellent by healthcare professionals may not necessarily be experienced the same way by patients, based on their personal care preference and quality of life expectations.  The healthcare community has recently increased the emphasis on shared decision making between providers and patients and would benefit from a system that integrates patient preferences into medical records and analyzes those preferences when making treatment determinations.  The application describes systems and methods for managing patient preference data.  It is available for review until February 5, 2009.   There are 13 other patent applications currently available for review covering a wide spectrum of subject matter: Multi-dimensional serial containment process (From IBM, available until December 1, 2008) Reducing power usage in a software application (From IBM, available until December 1, 2008) Temporally relevant data placement (From Intel, available until December 1, 2008) Gesture-based communications (From GE, available until December 1, 2008) Peer to peer network (From Microsoft, available until December 11, 2008) Methods and systems for tracking and auditing intellectual property in packages of open source software (From Bonnet, Baroniunas, and Webbink, available until December 18, 2008) Preserving privacy of data streams using dynamic correlations (From IBM, available until December 18, 2008) Ecosystem allowing compliance with prescribed requirements or objectives (From Goldman Sachs, available until January 1, 2009) System and method for optimizing query access to a database comprising heirarchically-organized data (From IBM, available until January 1, 2009) Systems and methods for profiling clinic workflow (From GE, available until January 22, 2009) Techniques for processing data from a multilingual database (From IBM, available until January 29, 2009) Executing multiple threads in a processor (From IBM, available until January 29, 2009) Systems and methods for asynchronous collaboration and annotation of patient information (From GE, available until February 5, 2009)

USPTO Commissioner John Doll on Peer-to-Patent Commissioner Doll spoke about Peer-to-Patent in an interview with AllBusiness,com entitled "Filing a Patent Application? The New Initiative You Can't Miss" In the interview, Doll compared Peer-to-Patent to the widely used and accepted process that occurs in peer review journals and research journals. "After 18 months, all [patent applications] are available to the public.  We aren't changing that.  We're just involving more informed and more passionate people in the process - a larger audience.  The examiner's word is final.  If community members offer up claims that are invalid or don't make sense, they are definitely discounted.  This process doesn't increase the workload of examiners significantly, but can dramatically increase the quality."   Doll went on to say, "The examiner that is the most informed is going to make the best decision.  The best prior art, which is to say, the most complete collection of prior art, is going to result in the soundest decision.  The idea is weak patents serve no one."  Doll also commented that, thus far, Peer-to-Patent has had a "generally positive effect." To read the full article, click here. JPO Releases Annual Report The Japan Patent Office released its Annual Report in which it details "Community Patent Review," the JPO version of Peer-to-Patent.  The report includes a 2-page discussion about Community Patent Review as one of the government's efforts in intellectual property activities.   To see the full report, click here. Participate In Peer-to-Patent For more information on how to participate, visit the DoTank at: http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent Peer-to-Patent is accepting patent applications for Computer Architecture, Software, and Information Security as well as Business Methods and E-Commerce.

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