The Washington Post is reporting today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will soon begin experimenting with a wikinomics approach to reviewing patent applications. Anyone who’s been keeping tabs on the intellectual property system knows that this idea is long overdue.
The number of patent applications has tripled since the 1980s, while the number […]
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A Wikinomics approach to the patent system
March 7th, 2007
Tags: intellectual property · government · patents · collective intelligence