In the first month since the launch of Peer-to-Patent on June 15 (www.peertopatent.org):
1078 people have signed up to be reviewers.
Reviewers have posted 32 instances of prior art for 7 applications.
There have been 95,448 page viewsto the website from 15,718 visitors in 100 countries.
There are currently 7 applications available for public review:
Microsoft Application: "Off-line Economies for Digital Media"
IBM Application 11/290893: "Database Staging Area Read-Through or Forced Flush with Dirty Notification"
IBM Application 11/304021: "System and Method for Migrating Databases"
Red Hat Application 11/164393: "Cooperative Mechanism for Efficient Application Memory Allocation"
Intel Application 11/286585: "Register Tracking for Speculative Prefetching"
Intel Application 11/291378: "Stack Tracker"
HP Application 11/286554: "User Selectable Management Alert Format"
GE Application 11/301399: "Method, Apparatus, and Computer Program Product for Providing Status of a Process"
We welcome anyone who would like to sign up as either an applicant or reviewer. Prospective applicants must have their patent applications classified in USPTO Technology Center 2100 in order to be eligible and must file an "Applicant's Consent to Third-Party Comments in Published Applications and Consent to Pilot Participation" form (available on the USPTO website at: http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/peerpriorartpilot/consent.pdf). However, once a patent application is deemed eligible for participation in Peer-to-Patent, the invention will be reviewed out of turn within 1 year.
Signing up to be a reviewer is easy, with new improvements being made to the site's registration page. Those interested in the becoming reviewers can sign up by visiting www.peertopatent.org and filling out the registration form.
Enhancements have also been made to the Peer-to-Patent site to make participation even easier, including support for email and RSS alerts. The new alerts allow subscribers to be notified when a new application of interest has been posted to the site. Participants can also sign up to receive notifications about new postings for each specific application via RSS and email.
There are a number of videos posted to the site (www.peertopatent.org/video) intended to educate reviewers about prior art. These include a video from former USPTO Director Todd Dickinson, a tutorial on how to use Peer-to-Patent, and many, many more.
95,448 page views
19,878 visits
15,718 unique visitors
Average 4.79 pages per visit
Size of Community: 1078 registered users
Browsers:
Firefox and Internet Explorer = 88% of traffic
Operating Systems:
73.45% Windows
15.54% Linux
10.46% Macintosh
Traffic:
71.06% referrals, 25.68% Direct Traffic
Traffic Breakdown:
19.32% groklaw.net
11.62% slashdot.org and yro.slashdot.org
9.23% spectrum.ieee.com
Others:
IBM, Patently-O, HP, metafilter, IT Toolbox, engadget, google.
Analytics Visuals:
Peer-to-Patent Website Traffic PDF
