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White House Takes Steps Against Patent Trolls

Posted by samzenpus on from the patents-under-the-bridge dept.

itwbennett writes "The Obama administration on Thursday launched a website with information to assist people and businesses targeted in patent lawsuits or receiving patent demand letters. The White House also announced that it would launch a new crowdsourcing initiative focused on identifying prior art (evidence of existing inventions) that the USPTO can use to reject bad patent claims and will expand a USPTO patent examiner technical training program by allowing outside technologists to help with the training."

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  1. A new crowdsourcing initiative to find prior art! by Laxori666 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You mean something like patents.stackexchange.com?

  2. How about the REAL link? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/patents