Program turns to online masses to improve patents

September 15th, 2008 in Technology / Internet

(AP) -- Some of the biggest players in the technology industry complain that the U.S. patent system is broken - putting too many patents of dubious merit in the hands of people who can use them to drag companies and other inventors to court.

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