This is a form of public participation to patent examination.

Patent examination is a costly and time consuming process.

Others feel that they will help speed up patent examination and improve patent quality.

Thomas Jefferson, who was Secretary of State at the time, realized the need to employ experts into the patent examination process.

This is called patent examination.

Track I provides applicants with greater control over when their applications are examined and promote greater efficiency in the patent examination process.

With paralleled goals around public participation in patent examination, the partnership mixes both community collaboration through the profit sharing system and corporate sponsorship.

The second phase of modernisation has been proposed with the aim of achieving US patent examination efficiency among others.

Proponents also argued that the Act provides numerous benefits to small businesses such as fast-track patent examination, fee reductions, and expanded prior user rights.

In a 2006 report the National Academy of Sciences has recommended that "in all cases, applications should be published during patent examinations".

The claimed purpose is to improve the quality of patent examination, as well as re-examination, through the involvement of the public, to help identifying relevant prior art.

As Deputy Director, Ono attempted to improve the patent examination system to increase examination quality and reduce the time between application and approval.

"As an example of a decentralized (or demonopolized) patent examination system, Prof. Duffy pointed to the Israeli patent system."

A 30-year veteran of patent examination, Mr. Goldberg directs the Patent and Trademark Office's computer inventions section.

On March 8, 2013, the Canadian Patent Office announced changes in patent examination practice based on the ruling in the Amazon.com case.

We've even harnessed the power of the Internet and the global technology community to strengthen the patent examination process by expanding our Peer-to-Patent (P2P) pilot program.

The hoped-for effect is that patent examination will be more efficient and thorough thus patents that do issue will be of higher quality than is currently possible.

Professor Duffy has called for the demonopolization of the US and other patent offices as a means form improving the efficiency and thoroughness of patent examination.

One portion of the bill, which recapitulates the Patent Sovereignty Act, is raising some eyebrows at the crowdsourced patent examination initiative Peer to Patent.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, patent examination in France for novelty and utility was performed by the private French Academy under commission from the French government.

The drug is currently in use in Cuba and Ecuador,Vietnam, and recently the Philippines and has been submitted for patent examination in Canada.

The AIA also allows the USPTO to implement a fast-track examination option under which the patent examination process will be completed within 12 months.

Do these high-visibility re-examinations call into doubt the quality of all patent examinations - the process by which a patent is granted - and mean that virtually any award can potentially be rescinded?

The US Patent and Trademark Office, together with the NASA Tournament Lab, is launching a contest to develop new algorithms to aid in patent examination.

On Dec. 9, 2010, Article One Partners announced that 3 of the patents held by NTP would be posted to their online community to utilize Public participation in patent examination.