[OWW-SC] Wikis and patents

[Reshma Shetty]

>From the article linked below, it sounds like the patent office no longer
considers Wikipedia an acceptable research source.  However, in general a
lab notebook is generally used to document the time and inventor of the
patentable invention.  So it is not clear to me that the patent office would
necessarily reject original invention documentation using a wiki (i.e. lab
notebook) as invalid.

-Reshma

On 4/16/07, tk at csail.mit.edu <tk at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> The patent office has decided wikis are not good information sources.
> This likely has implications to users doing lab notebooks etc. in a
> wiki like format.
>
> http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1168336936842
>
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