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Crowdsourcing Comes to the Patent Office

The current patent system is under strain and is failing to cope up. Right now the average waiting time to win a patent is 27 months and rising. There is a huge backlog which is a being blamed for a fall in quality of inspections of the patent applications. One interesting suggestion is to open up the patent process to peer review. A pilot effort for 250 patent applications is getting underway…



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