SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Crowdsourced Non-Patent Literature Hosting - RFP
- Notice Date
- 6/23/2015
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), Office of Procurement, P. O. Box 1450 - Mail Stop 6, 600 Dulany Street, MDE, 7th Floor, Alexandria, Virginia, 22313-1450
- ZIP Code
- 22313-1450
- Solicitation Number
- DOC52PAPT1500025
- Archive Date
- 7/28/2015
- Point of Contact
- Heather M. Bakos, Phone: 5712725361
- E-Mail Address
-
heather.bakos@uspto.gov
(heather.bakos@uspto.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Attachment 2 Attachment 1 Request for Proposal The USPTO, as part of the White House executive actions to strengthen the quality and the accessibility of the patent system, is persuing ways to make it easier for technologists and engineers from industry and academia to provide technical training and expertise to patent examiners. See White House FACT SHEET, February 20, 2014 (Section J, Attachment 1). To determine whether an invention is patentable, a patent examiner must evaluate it in light of the state of the art. As outlined in the Recent Patent Quality Summit, the USPTO recognizes that examiners are the fundamental resource essential to building and strengthening the quality of issued patents and the quality of all work products during the filing, examination, and issuance process. See Request for Comments on Enhancing Patent Quality, 80 FR 6475, February 5, 2015 (Section J, Attachment 2). But innovation moves fast and important advances may be documented only in hard-to-access corporate records or any number of other widely-dispersed repositories. The most relevant information about a particular technology in an application is sometimes difficult for examiners to locate and use. Because this information often resides with the technical and scientific community, crowdsourcing and third-party submissions are promising ways to uncover hard-to-find prior art. A growing number of organizations from a wide range of industries have expressed a willingness to help with crowdsourcing these efforts by pledging to provide public product documentation, educational materials, and other forms of "prior-art." The USPTO is looking for solutions on how it can best best utilize pledged materials in order to ensure that examiners have the tools, resources, and training required to perform their jobs optimally and to provide a superior work product. See attached RFP and attachments for solicitation.
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