US patent office (sort of) admits it's not infallible

Written May 29. 1999, at 02:00 GMT.

The US Patents and Trademark Office has asked for public comments in search for prior acts when they're determining weather an art is "non-obious".

It's good to see them both admit that they may have made mistakes in the past (they don't really say that but that's what I read between the lines) and use the many-eyeballs effect in their service. I believe this request was influenced by the recent open prior-act investigation of W3C.

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