November Announcement

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Title: November Announcement

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Dear Reviewers, We have much to celebrate at this time. With the passage and signing of the America Invents Act back in September, the USPTO is now in position to adopt much of what we have learned from Peer To Patent. According to USPTO Director Dave Kappos, the first step will be to develop and implement a web-based third-party contribution system by September 2012. This will provide the ability to submit prior art electronically much like you are used to with Peer To Patent. To encourage third-party contributions and the use of this system, Kappos indicated that any contributor will be able to submit up to three prior art references with annotations through the web-based system at no cost. This is a dramatic change from existing law which requires the payment of a fee for third-party submitted prior art with no annotations and only in hard copy. Contributors who wish to submit more than three references or who wish to continue submitting in hard copy will likely still be subject to a fee. Of course, all of this is simply proposed at this time and awaits final rulemaking, but the enabling legislation is a direct result of all of your work on the Peer To Patent pilots.  We still have a bit of work to do on both the UK and US pilots even though we are no longer posting new applications. Please help us complete these pilots by contributing prior art on the last of the posted applications. We will tell you more about our future plans in our December newsletter.  Kind regards, Mark Webbink Follow us on:                  How are we doing? Do you have any suggestions for improving Peer To Patent? Send your questions or comments to:  info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx We value your time and privacy. If you would like to unsubscribe to these newsletters, simply follow the link located at the bottom of the email. Thank you all for your outstanding contributions to Peer To Patent.

Behind the Scenes This Issue: Second Annual Prior Art Collaboration Conference International Participants gather at USPTO On October 20-21, New York Law School and Queensland University of Technology convened the Second Annual Prior Art Collaboration Conference hosted by the US Patent and Trademark Office. This second international meeting joined those interested in improving our patent systems to discuss what has been happening, the results of the various Peer To Patent pilots, the assessment of participating examiners and how to improve access to prior art through open access.  The proceedings from the Second Annual Prior Art Collaboration Conference are publicly available here.    Prior Artist Awards New Office Actions are posted and new Prior Artists have been awarded!  Congratulations to our latest recipients whose prior art submissions were referenced by the patent examiner.  Ryan O'Quinn * Diane Willis  Christopher Ilardi  Helen Shi *  Alberto Araiza * Claude Boudoin Eun Sol Cho *  Thomas Irizarry * Durga Kandasamy * Paul Merolla Bindu Nair * Timothy Myers Van Nguy William Pagan Steve Pearson Rishi Rawatt * Adam Roach Haritha Tapa * Yeen Tham Amanda Willis *   Indicates the number of reviewer submitted prior art referenced in an office action.  * Indicates a student reviewer.  View our full list of Prior Artists Award Recipients! Think you have what it takes to be a Prior Artist Award winner? Have a look at these applications and share your knowledge!   Reviewer Tips This Issue: ArchPatent New Patent Search Tool Recently, ArchPatent, a free-to-use patent search tool, went live to the public. Developed with the help of many Patently-O readers, by engineers and managers, this resource aims to ease the difficulty in patent searching. As a feature, this resource provides the ability to search through US patent applications, assignments and grants back to 1920 and US patents as far back as 1790. Additional tools also allow filtering, organizing and saving these searches on personal workspaces. Better yet, ArchPatent is mainly supported by ad revenue providing free patent searching for registrants.  New from Peer To Patent Recently, the Peer To Patent Team created a video explaining the program. Check it out!

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