Welcome Message - Technical Documents
Welcome to the Community Patent Review project technical document page, the repository of technical and design documents for the United States Patent and Trademark Office Community Patent Review pilot project.
The following draft project documents are available for comment:
- Screen mockups - The latest visual design for the system. *** UPDATED Feb 21, 2006
- Use Cases - A functional specification for the system ** UPDATED Nov 2006
- Developer Wiki - Contains candidate architecture proposals for each use case.
- Rating and Reputation Mechanisms - Overview of rating and reputation aspects of system
- Workflow Process Overview - Describes how the system works
- Feature List - A list of the key features of the system
- Metrics - Proposed metrics for the system.
- Supplemental Requirements - Listing of non-functional system requirements such as system availability. UPDATED Nov 29
- Tasks, Issues, and Risks - Project planning information UPDATED Nov 29
- Site Map Example - Draft navigation flow for the system user interface
- Suggestion Box - A place for providing other suggestions.
To review the project documents and provide feedback, just click on one of the above links. At the bottom of each page are links that allow comments to be added. Feedback to the developer mailing list is also encouraged. We welcome constructive input that is focused on improving the system design.
This series of web pages has been designed to enable a public conversation about the pilot design and solicit feedback. We are committed to complete transparency and will post all project documentation to encourage collaboration within and between the legal and technology communities.
The project team is planning to upgrade the technical infrastructure for the project in the future. The document listed here will eventually be migrated to another solution. However, we did not want to hold up the feedback process while we design that system. We plan to change to a new mechanism for document feedback in October 2006.
Thanks,
The Community Patent Review Project Team
About the Community Patent Review project
Community Patent Review (CPR) is a project of the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School working with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. It is an initiative under the Patent Office Five Year Strategic Plan (2007-2012). CPR is sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft and Red Hat and supported by a grant from the Omidyar Network. For more information, please see http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent.
Keywords: p2patent-developer, p2patent, use cases
