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Re:New Patent Law Actually Makes Life Harder For Startups by swombat on Monday September 19, 2011 @02:40PM (#3014713)
But I thought that was the law they just passed - applications can be repealed up to 9 months after publication?
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Re:New Patent Law Actually Makes Life Harder For Startups by brodney on Monday September 19, 2011 @04:19PM (#3015059)
Oh, so the patents to search and crowd-review would be public. So crawl the search database and have those new results for review.

Looks like another group is doing this in conjunction with the USPTO http://peertopatent.org/. I guess you'd have to have some way of bringing the concerns to the USPTO for review, a relationship with them.

I wonder if it would be worthwhile to keep the patent review comments around, that way if someone found themselves in a lawsuit they would have a starting point for defense.

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