Apparently, the IBM involvement of the Community Patent Initiative is much larger and more established than I originally realized. There is a Peer to Patent Project website, blog and proposal.

Earlier this year, Professor Beth Noveck, an intellectual-property lawyer at New York Law School, wrote a blog post about the need for the patent office to tap into the collective intelligence online in helping vet prior art. What was needed, she wrote, was something like a wiki, where people could contribute their expertise on various matters. "We're at a critical moment," said Noveck. "We have the social software available with collaborative filtering, social reputation systems, so that we can do online peer review. There is so much dissatisfaction with the patent process; this is a ripe opportunity to move to peer review."

The above quote is from the article The Patent Office's Fix.

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