September 18, 2006
USPTO Bans Wikipedia
Business Week (9/4/2006 Issue 3999, p12) has reported that the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) will no longer accept Wikipedia entries as "accepted sources of information". I am wondering why the practice was allowed in the first place.
The Patent Librarian conducted his own analysis to see how much the practice was utilized.
[VIA: The Patent Librarian's Notebook, September 10, 2006]
The Case community can find various sources of the Business Week article from the E-Journal Portal.
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Comments
Posted on September 19, 2006 01:01 AM
Wikipedia should be taken off the internet. Total misinformation.
Now remove the ip ban.
Posted on September 19, 2006 06:26 AM
If your comment is viewable, which it is, there is no ban.
Posted on September 19, 2006 06:29 AM
Only portions of the information are bad. Much of the information is more reliable than other source on the net. Of course, none of it belongs as an official citation in research.