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Article: IBM, UNIVERSITIES TO CREATE WAY TO SCREEN PATENT APPLICATIONS.
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- July 14, 2008
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TOKYO, July 14 Asia Pulse - IBM Corp. will join hands with the University of Tokyo and other colleges to develop a technique that can be used worldwide to evaluate patent applications for problems before they are submitted.
The patent quality index, a checklist for examining patent applications, is expected to be completed by around 2010.
Others participating in this effort are Columbia University and the University of Munich.
The index will make it possible for patent applications to be scored in areas such as whether novelty searches and patent explanations are sufficient.
Based on this score, a company hoping to file a patent ...