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Jul. 10, 2007
IP Lawyers Wonder Whether Peer Review Will Help Patent Process
SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property lawyers and high-tech firms are counting on a new program that uses volunteers to reduce a backlog of a million applications at the beleaguered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property lawyers and high-tech firms are counting on a new program that uses volunteers to reduce a backlog of nearly a million applications at the beleaguered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
They also hope that with computer science experts doing peer reviews of complex applications, the patent arena will ultimat...
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