talk about having people look over your shoulder while you work...

[kaylarudbek]

Apparently somebody is trying to analyze the PTO examiners's work from the outside...

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2012/01/04/patent-strategy-discovering-crucial-patent-examiner-data/id=21559/

http://www.patentcore.com/

Comments

[legionseagle]

Dear God, that gives me the cold grues (and I don't hold out any brief for the USPTO; I suspect I know some of the reasons there are issues, but they don't seem like the ones where this sort of approach would be in the least helpful)

[kaylarudbek]

They're not the only ones who are up to this:

http://www.usptoexaminers.com/

and then someone at Univ. Alberta is studying the USPTO from an economist's viewpoint as well (although not calling out specific examiners by name) http://www.ualberta.ca/~langinie/papers.html

[kaylarudbek]

although I see that the patent core website is charging for subscription/access. I wonder if any one of the examiners could bring a lawsuit against these folks for aiding and abetting slander and libel?