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USPTO Peer Review Process To Begin Soon
An anonymous reader writes "As we've discussed several times before on Slashdot, the US patent office is looking to employ a Wiki-like process for reviewing patents. It's nowhere near as open as Wikipedia, but there are still numerous comparisons drawn to the well-known project in this Washington Post story. Patent office officials site the huge workload their case officers must deal with in order to handle the modern cycle of product development. Last year some 332,000 applications were handled by only 4,000 employees. 'The tremendous workload has often left examiners with little time to conduct thorough reviews, according to sympathetic critics. Under the pilot project, some companies submitting patent applications will agree to have them reviewed via the Internet. The list of volunteers already contains some of the most prominent names in computing, including Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle, as well as IBM, though other applicants are welcome.'"
You must mean 'cite'.
At least being has all the right letters... just not in the right order.
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
WRT Title: "SPTO Peer Review Process To Being Soon"
Chancey "I like to watch T.V." Gardner
With apologies to Cole Porter
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Huh?
Yoda, "Work for USPTO I do."
...Slashdot Headline Prufreeding To Being Sewn
To being, or not to being, that is the question:
:)
Whether 'tis nobler on the Net to suffer
The poor spelling and dupes of lazy editors,
Or to take arms against a sea of stupidity,
And by opposing end them?[1]
Sorry, but a simple mistake like this doesn't deserve more than that.
[1] The editors, of course, and by extension their lack of edits.
To Being! Finally, to Being!
Slashdot To Process Review Subject Article Coherency!
Comment of the year
Could somebody please point to the verb in that title?
I'm trying to make sense out of it but I can't.
The people lying and starving in the street do serve a very useful purpose.
If we are protected from the consequences of stupid decisions (such as giving a young girl who gets pregnant her own apartment and a monthly check- and freedom from her family) then people will engage in that stupid decision until the system breaks (hence welfare reform under a democratic president in the late 90's).
It sucks that deer will eat until there is no food and then starve to death. But if you put out food for them, it doesn't solve the problem.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.