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Story: Patent Office considers Wiki peer review

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GAUSS and p2parl

The FFII patent wiki project is called Gauss, see http://gauss.ffii.org/GaussProject . You can sometimes find high quality comments regarding the validity of granted patents put online by anonymous writers, e.g http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView/EP1271339/Comments

Sometimes people use it to create an overview of what is actually happening with a patent application in opposition, e.g. http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView/EP927945/Comments

For what it's worth, the patent expert Gregory Aharonian is not very enthusiastic about "peer review" and states that much of what Novak is saying in her report is "nonsense of the naive in that it ignores reality and history", see https://www.aful.org/wws/arc/patents/2006-11/msg00022.html

Of course the problem is who is going to pay for the examination work, regardless of wheter you use a wiki or not. The issue is very complex since every piece of prior art created by a patent granted "by mistake" is worth a lot of money if it is used in a clever way. FFII is proposing a solution to that problem with a privatization of examination scheme outlined in an overall strategy to improve Europe's patent system, see point 3 ("privatizing examination and making polluters pay") here: http://www.power-to-the-parliament.org/

Erik Josefsson, FFII.se

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