Intellectual Property Law

WikiPatents celebrates 1 year

By Kevin Heller

WikiPatents just celebrated its first birthday! During its first year, WikiPatents has become one of the most popular patent web sites on the Internet. It has been mentioned by hundreds of web sites and blogs, has been covered by The New York Times, CNet, and other notable online publications, has welcomed millions of visitors, and has built an active community of over 25,000 members! In its efforts to help improve patent quality, the WikiPatents Community has helped identify and comment on some of the most popular, valuable, amusing, interesting, and notable patents and patent applications.

The WikiPatents database now hosts over 10 million patents and patent applications and provides access to a number of valuable and FREE tools, including:

* advanced patent searching,
* patent PDF files,
* PAIR file histories or file wrappers, and
* double-click word searching within the text of patent documents.

Among its most notable achievements, WikiPatents.com is contributing to an important movement of improving patent quality by allowing users to add prior art references, comment on the relevancy of prior art, and discuss the scope of inventors' claims. To join the WikiPatents Community, go to http://www.wikipatents.com. Of course, it's free to join.

Full post as published by Tech Law Advisor on October 12, 2007 (boomark / email).