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Plagiarized Proteomics Paper Pulled

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

Further to an earlier post on IPBiz, the journal Proteomics retracted a plagiarized paper.

There was little explanation for how this paper passed through peer review.

The Chronicle of Higher Education noted:

In the news announcement, Mr. Dunn said: ?Clearly human error has caused a misstep in the normally rigorous peer review that is standard practice for Proteomics and should prevent such issues arising.?

This, and more (less?), could be expected from peer-to-patent.

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IPBiz got an email from the peer-to-patent people -->

Thanks to you, Peer-to-Patent has already put before the USPTO, in connection with a few dozen applications in the pilot, more than 3 times the number of prior art submissions than the Office received for all patent applications last year. But there is still more work to be done.

Peer-to-Patent is hosting a number of applications that need your expertise! There are currently 12 applications covering a wide array of inventions:

Method for configuring a windfarm network
(Submitted by GE, available for review until February 21, 2008)
Technique to modify a timer
(Submitted by Intel, available for review until February 28, 2008)
Cross-cutting detection of event patterns
(Submitted by IBM, available for review until March 6, 2008)
User interface paradigm for manufacturing applications
(Submitted by GE, available for review until March 13, 2008)
Computer compliance system and method
(Submitted by GE, available for review until March 13, 2008)
Vector length tracking mechanism
(Submitted by Intel, available for review until March 27, 2008)
Method and apparatus for determining the switch port to which an end-node device is connected
(Submitted by HP, available for review until March 27, 2008)
System and method for managing virtual collaboration systems
(Submitted by HP, available for review until March 27, 2008)
Automatic tracking of user data and reputation checking
(Submitted by Microsoft, available for review until March 27, 2008)
Relocating page tables
(Submitted by Sun Microsystems, available for review until April 3, 2008)
Method for generating mnemonic random passcodes
(Submitted by Sun Microsystems, available for review until April 17, 2008)
Method for resource sharing in a multiple pipeline environment
(Submitted by IBM, available for review until April 17, 2008)

Descriptions for each of the applications can be found here.

The success of Peer-to-Patent depends upon participation from a knowledgeable, diverse community. If you know anyone who might be interested in these applications, please forward this on to them or ask them to visit www.peertopatent.org!

**IPBiz notes a fair amount of email traffic on Microsoft's published application 20070300174 (MONITORING GROUP ACTIVITIES ), a lot of which can't be put on the blog.
[See 19 Jan. 08 IPBiz post: Microsoft "spyware" for monitoring activities? ] It would be nice if folks could review applications that really have people in a lather.

Also, IPBiz is puzzled by peer-to-patent's statement: more than 3 times the number of prior art submissions than the Office received for all patent applications [??] last year

Full post as published by IPBiz on February 15, 2008 (boomark / email).