Will someone tackle vnunet?
Of the IBM plan for patent application disclosure, Andrew Charlesworth of vnunet writes in an article titled IBM tackles US patent chaos:
One aspect of IBM's new patent procedure will be to publish innovations online that it plans to patent six months before filing.
If IBM is planning to disclose patent applications on the internet six months before filing patent applications at the USPTO, that would be remarkable. Don't think it's true, though.
The article also states:
Currently, the PTO publishes patent applications for two months, 18 months after they have been filed.
IPBiz notes that one can find anything that one wants on the internet.
The vnunet article includes:
"The centrepiece of this policy, and our actions to support it, is based on the principles that patent quality is a responsibility of the applicant," said Dr John Kelly, senior vice president for technology and intellectual property at IBM.
"These principles are as relevant in emerging regions of the world as they are in more mature economies.
"IBM is holding itself to a higher standard than any law requires because it is urgent that patent quality is improved, to stimulate innovation and provide greater clarity for the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights."
For more on grant rates and patent quality, see 88 JPTOS 726.
One aspect of IBM's new patent procedure will be to publish innovations online that it plans to patent six months before filing.
If IBM is planning to disclose patent applications on the internet six months before filing patent applications at the USPTO, that would be remarkable. Don't think it's true, though.
The article also states:
Currently, the PTO publishes patent applications for two months, 18 months after they have been filed.
IPBiz notes that one can find anything that one wants on the internet.
The vnunet article includes:
"The centrepiece of this policy, and our actions to support it, is based on the principles that patent quality is a responsibility of the applicant," said Dr John Kelly, senior vice president for technology and intellectual property at IBM.
"These principles are as relevant in emerging regions of the world as they are in more mature economies.
"IBM is holding itself to a higher standard than any law requires because it is urgent that patent quality is improved, to stimulate innovation and provide greater clarity for the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights."
For more on grant rates and patent quality, see 88 JPTOS 726.
posted by Lawrence B. Ebert at 5:08 AM
1 Comments:
PatentBaristas on Oct. 1 has a post from Ross Dawson to the effect that IBM's new patent application disclosure plan exposes its technological directions.
As noted on IPBiz, the practice of many companies has been to submit publications IMMEDIATELY after patent filing. Bell Labs did this with the transistor, with Physical Review giving details of the transistor long before the issued patent came out (even under today's 18 month publication, the report in Physical Review would have preceded the published application).
Separately, few companies implement the technology of ALL patents, so the internet posting does not necessarily reveal directions that IBM will take.
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