Re: "Judge delays BlackBerry US shutdown"

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In <ufe702t81fnu9dp4297njflp46dtq3d6vv@xxxxxxx> on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:58:08
GMT, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:16:46 -0400, Derek Broughton
<news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't believe that. I'm suggesting a refereed system exactly like
scientific journals use - this hasn't made research prohibitively expensive
(or slow), and I see no reason why it should make patents so.

I wrote a really nice long reply and the power dies before I could
save or post it. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

And no battery backup. Oooooooooooppppppssssss..... ;)

Tech journals have perhaps 200 articles per year that need peer
reviews. The really technical rags (IEEE Journals) will have about 30
per issue or perhaps 400 per year. That can be handled by a small
staff.

Meanwhile the USPTO has 150,000 patents per year to deal with. Just
reading the patents takes me about 2 hours. My guess is a quick
review and some light research will add about 10 hours. A 4 page
report should burn another 4 hours. Total is 16 hours per patent
(which I think is conservative). No patent goes through the first
time, so the whole mess has to be done again when it's reviewed.
Double the hours. A qualified rent-an-examiner probably will charge a
low of $100/hr, so the grand total is:
150,000 * 32 hrs * $100/hr = $240 million per year
for just reviewing these patents. Never mind the appeals. Well, the
USPTO budget is $1.3 billion this year, so I guess might affort it.

The cost of proper review could probably be substantially defrayed by
implementing a premium express service for those that can afford it and need
it, much like the FDA is considering for drug approval applications.

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