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Is anyone doing a dedicated or distributed prior art location project? "Preissuance Third Party Submission" is a much easier way to dispose of bad patents, done

Is anyone doing a dedicated or distributed prior art location project? "Preissuance Third Party Submission" is a much easier way to dispose of bad patents, done during the application stage, but it requires someone to notice first. Seems like it would be a public good to challenge essentially all patent applications.

walterbell 9y ago
You mean an open version of https://priorart.ip.com https://priorart.ip.com? It has even been difficult to have an open, pubic database of US law. If an open database existed, ML/AI and blockchain could reduce the burden of finding affected parties to help challenge patent applications.