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.
Posted on September 29, 2007 08:13 PM
There's an interesting site that brings the concepts of patents & wikis together: WikiPatents Community Patent Review. It seeks to bring the power of wikis to the area of inventions and intellectual property, while still maintaining integrity, reliability, and credibility. Users cannot, of course, change the content of patent documents or the prior art references identified by the USPTO. User can, however, comment on the validity and scope of inventors' claims. They can also add references to additional relevant prior art that examiners at the USPTO may have overlooked (of course, the site clearly distinguishes between original prior art references & those added by users). Users can also vote and comment on the relevance of prior art references. The site is an effort to help reform and strengthen the US patent system by allowing the public to help clarify who owns what in the world of intellectual property, which will hopefully help reduce the number of economy-crippling patent infringement lawsuits we see more and more of lately.
Posted on November 30, 2007 09:27 AM
My opion is clear: wikipedia should not be banned.
Posted on April 14, 2008 12:58 PM
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