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The Prior Art Archive is a new, open access system that allows anyone to upload their prior work and make it easily searchable by patent examiners. (see chapters below) Currently, patent examiners face barriers to finding and reviewing large swaths of existing prior art. This MIT-hosted and publicly accessible archive was created in collaboration with the USPTO and Cisco to address some of those barriers. We aim to make it easy for anyone to get their prior art in front of examiners and, as a result, significantly improve the quality of issued patents.

MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito and USPTO Director Andrei Iancu are leading a half-day launch celebration at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on October 3.

Chapter 1: 00:45 Welcome - Kate Darling, MIT
Chapter 2: 04:48 How this project started - Dan Lang, Cisco
Chapter 3: 15:55 Why MIT/Media Lab? - Joi Ito, MIT Media Lab
Chapter 4: 26:26 The Mission of USPTO & efforts to improve patent quality - Andrei Iancu, USPTO
Chapter 5: 43:39 The Prior Art Archive - Travis Rich, MIT Media Lab & Bhaskar Ranade, Cisco
Chapter 6: 1:05:39 Colleen V. Chien, Santa Clara University
Chapter 7: 1:18:22 - Mike J. Meurer, Boston University
Chapter 8: 1:53:25 - Panel: How can we keep improving patent quality and why does it matter?

More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/events/prio...

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