The peer review phase of the inaugural Peer To Patent Australia pilot
project is now complete. In all, 31 pending patent applications put forward voluntarily
by participating applicants were reviewed by the community of peer reviewers. During
the six months the peer review phase ran, the community of peer
reviewers generated 106 prior art references in response to the 31 participating
patent applications. Those prior art references will now be forwarded to
IP Australia under
s 27 of the Patents Act 1990 (Cth) to be considered by the patent examiners
in examination.
The project now enters a six-month evaluation phase. During this phase, both IP Australia and Queensland University of Technology, the project manager, will evaluate the pilot’s success. The results of the pilot will be published in an anniversary report, which will be made available under a Creative Commons license on the project website in December 2010.
The conclusion of the peer review phase of the Australian pilot comes right on the heels of active interest in a proposed Peer To Patent-type system by the World Intellectual Property Organization (see blog post of June 10, 2010).
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