Earlier this week I blogged about Steven Johnson’s wonderful new book Future Perfect, which lays out the Peer Progressive agenda. I am therefore particularly excited about yesterday’s launch of AskPatents, a collaboration between the USPTO and our portfolio company StackExchange. Joel Spolsky has a great blog post up on the StackExchange blog explaining the origins of and motivation behind AskPatents. The basic idea is to access the broadest network possible to find prior art. Instead of rely...

Earlier this week I blogged about Steven Johnson’s wonderful new book Future Perfect, which lays out the Peer Progressive agenda. I am therefore particularly excited about yesterday’s launch of AskPatents, a collaboration between the USPTO and our portfolio company StackExchange. Joel Spolsky has a great blog post up on the StackExchange blog explaining the origins of and motivation behind AskPatents. The basic idea is to access the broadest network possible to find prior art. Instead of rely...