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USPTO Peer to Patent Program Expanded to Include Biotech Patent Applications

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Sherri Oslick -- The U.S Patent and Trademark Office announced on Tuesday that it plans to expand the Peer to Patent pilot program to include applications in biotechnology, biopharmaceuticals, and bioinformatics, among other areas. The Peer to Patent program previously was limited to software and business method applications. Initiated in 2007 as a joint venture between the USPTO and New York Law School, the Peer to Patent pilot program was established to test the viability of a system in which the public would have the opportunity to submit and discuss the relevance of prior art documents for a given...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on October 20, 2010 (boomark / email).