Berkeley Community Patent Workshop

On February 13, 2006, Prof. Steven Weber, Director, IIS, University of California at Berkeley, will host the first Peer to Patent: Community Patenting Workshop on expertise and reputation systems. In order to build an expert peer review network on-line, we need to determine how we identify expertise.  We start from the proposition that some kind of weighting of inputs is essential to an effective community patent system.  A well-designed reputation system is one way to meet that need as it would enable the Patent Office to identify those experts qualified to judge prior art, opine on the obviousness of an invention and judge its innovative merit. This Workshop focuses specifically on the topic of expertise and reputation, bringing together those with experience in these issues with patent domain area experts to design the system’s reputation system.