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March 18, 2014 11:00 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bcV0nznosWU/story01.htm
EFF, Public Knowledge and Engine tell the USPTO how to improve patentquality
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge and Engine have submitted comments [PDF] to the US Patent and Trademark Office explaining how examiners could improve the quality of patents that the USPTO issues by expanding their search for "prior art" (that is, evidence that the thing under discussion has already been invented) by building searchable databases, and by seeing through the common, misleading practices of using synonyms for common words to make obvious things sound new.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bcV0nznosWU/story01.htm
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