Does your database include data on pending patent applications?
The database only includes data on Published Applications in accordance with the 18 month pre-grant publication rules. Pending patent applications where the applicat has elected to not publish prior to grant remain confidential.
Still though, I'd love to be a part of that kind of overhaul if there were some other way to get pending patent applications.
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.
From the FAQ: http://appft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/help/helpfaq.html#what_i...
Does your database include data on pending patent applications?
The database only includes data on Published Applications in accordance with the 18 month pre-grant publication rules. Pending patent applications where the applicat has elected to not publish prior to grant remain confidential.
Still though, I'd love to be a part of that kind of overhaul if there were some other way to get pending patent applications.