When yahoo posted its "smart drag-and-drop" patent application to the Peer-to-Patent community review Web site late last year, its aim was to help improve the patent review process by participating in the open. Web-based experiment. For its trouble, Yahoo saw its application roundly mocked on various technology and legal blogs, picked apart by participants in the Peer-to-Patent community and hit with a "nonfinal" rejection by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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