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By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- USPTO Implements New Peer Review Pilot Program In a notice published earlier this month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced the launch of a new one-year pilot program intended to test the scalability of its peer review program, in which the public can submit documents and comments that might be useful in the examination of participating applications. Under the new pilot program, the pool of candidate applications will be expanded to include applications in the life sciences, telecommunications, business methods, and computer hardware and software technology areas, and the total number of applications that may...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on December 22, 2010 (boomark / email).