A strong patent system drives cost effective business decisions by intellectual property (IP) stakeholders.

Why Patent Quality Matters

Patent Applications describe technology that exists for the first time and has not been published previously anywhere around the world

Patents and Intellectual Property were worth $5 Trillion around the world in 2009

Patent Quality relates to the level of certainty that the technology was not previously published

Governments Grant Monopoly ownership of the technology through patents, which limits any other inventors from benefitting from the technology

Low Quality Patents hamper innovation by providing ownership to the wrong parties

Prior Art, the evidence to prove past publication, can exist anywhere around the world

The Current System

The USPTO, and other patent offices, currently review all patent applications and are well-respected for their high quality work

The Amount of Prior Art around the world is too much information for any patent office to review entirely

A Hard Copy Doctoral Thesis in Beijing can be just as relevant and important as a searchable U.S. Patent

1.2 Million Backlogged Applications in the U.S., in 2009, in addition to 485,000 new applications

Only 20 Hours of review were completed for each patent, with only 2 Hours on Prior Art Research

An Innovative Solution

Evidence of Invention exists all over the world and cannot be found by a small group of people

Crowdsourcing brings together technical and research experience to find information in places previously inaccessible to modern companies

A Global Community of researchers can find evidence in every language, every country, and every format

Adding Deeper Review allows us to increase patent quality and increase innovation

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