News
- The White House blog includes Peer to Patent in the list of Open Government Initiatives.
- The State of California Brokers of Expertise project is going live soon, take a look at the new website here! ViKiwi helped with the initial design and prototyping for the project. Click here to find out more about the project.
- Business Week raves about the design of Peer to Patent: "Open innovation. Crowdsourcing. You hear about these ideas a lot in the management literature and business press, but it's surprisingly hard to find examples of them in the wild."
- Patent Barista's blog talks about ViKiwi-developed Post-Issue Peer to Patent here
- Read Groklaw article about the ViKiwi developed Linux Defenders and Post-Issue Peer-to-Patent websites
- Google's Eric Schmidt: "Government has not embraced, generically, the tools we all use every day," said Schmidt. "It's time." Pointing to the Patent Office's Peer-to-Patent program for crowdsourcing patent application analysis, Schmidt asked "why is that not true of every branch of government?" (article here)
- ViKiwi presents to the government CIO conference on GOV 2.0 --- web 2.0 in government here
- We knew it all along...Wired Magazine finally discovers that we are all patent reviewers!
- Learn more about making cuts in funding less painful for students and educators.
- What are some of the most popular assessment tools? Find out here.
- ViKiwi launches SchoolMeasures™, a web-based communications platform specially designed for service requests in school districts. SchoolMeasures helps districts lessen the blow to students of declining budgets by enabling districts to shift dollars from non-instructional activities to the classroom (see news item).
- CNN writes about the Peer to patent project here.
- School CIO suggests 14 tips for negotiating software agreements.
- ViKiwi lauches a beta release of ProjectDiscipline™, a web-based project management tool specifically designed to facilitate collaborative work within small teams.
- USPTO renews the Peer to Patent project and expands project scope.
- Since 2007 ViKiwi has developed and managed the Peer to Patent system for New York Law School. This system allows the public to assist the US Patent and Trademark Office via the internet in finding prior art for patent applications. Click here to find out more about the project.
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