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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/54359a52-c9af-4d14-ab99-6ea9ffa0656e/84DB6581-B6F9-4CEE-9071-AD38722E0492/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383639/index.htm" href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383639/index.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">money.cnn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383639/index.htm"><DIV class='storyheadline'>Patent review goes Wiki</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383639/index.htm"><DIV class='storysubhead'>An idea born on a blog is endorsed by Microsoft and IBM, reports Fortune's Nicholas Varchaver.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383639/index.htm"><DIV class='storybyline'>By <a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383639/mailto:nvarchaver@fortunemail.com">Nicholas Varchaver</a>, Fortune senior writer</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383639/index.htm"><DIV class='storytimestamp'>August 16 2006: 10:16 AM EDT</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383639/index.htm"><P>(Fortune Magazine) -- The problem: an epidemic of shoddy patents. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383639/index.htm"><P>The solution: Wikipedia? </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383639/index.htm"><P>That's the basic concept behind a pilot program sponsored by <a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=IBM">IBM</a> (<a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/chart/chart.html?symb=IBM">Charts</a>) and other companies, which the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office appears poised to green-light. 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