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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Having worked with some of the strategy and intellectual property folks at IBM over the past few years I’ve come to regard them as some of the most progressive and thoughtful people on the planet when it comes to rethinking the nature of intellectual property system and fixing the ailing patent system. IBM recently launched [...]

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