Press release: “Peer-to-Patent, an initiative of New York Law Schools Institute for Information Law and Policy in cooperation with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), began on Friday of last week. In an Official Gazette Notice published on June 6, 2007, the USPTO announced that this pilot program to test the value of public participation in the patent examination process will run for one year. The USPTO has committed to provide feedback on the usefulness of public submissions. The results of the pilot will be compiled by the USPTO and New York Law School…As of Friday, June 15, five applications (from HP, IBM, Intel, and Red Hat) were made available for public review on the Peer-to-Patent Web site at www.peertopatent.org, and the public has already begun to review and comment. Descriptions of the applications are available here.”
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Daily Archives: June 17, 2007
Government Information Division Posts Presentations from SLA Conference
Government Information Division, 2007 Annual Conference Recaps Denver, Colorado, June 3-6, 2007: “The Government Information Division will be recapping all its sponsored and co-sponsored events. In addition, DGI will offer recaps of other events that impact government information. This page will be updated as new recaps are made available.” Continue Reading
Report of Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health – June 2007
An Achievable Vision: Report of the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health – June 2007 (100 pages, PDF) Related news and government documents: Washington Post, June 17, 2007 – The War Inside – Troops Are Returning From the Battlefield With Psychological Wounds, But the Mental-Health System That Serves Them Makes Healing Difficult, by… Continue Reading
Public Interest Group Launches Searchable Farm Bill 2007 Database
Press release: “For decades, American taxpayers have provided tens of billions of dollars in federal farm subsidies to some of the largest and wealthiest farm businesses in the nation. But thousands of people who benefited from the subsidy flow were shielded from public view behind layers of partnerships, joint ventures, limited liability corporations, cooperatives, and… Continue Reading
Argus Leader Posts Availability of State Employee Salaries
ArgusLeader.com has posted a webpage that lists states and corresponding information on state employee salaries, if and where available, either online or via written request. Continue Reading
OMB Issues New Guidelines for Protecting the Confidentiality of Statistical Information
Press release: OMB Issues New Guidelines for Protecting the Confidentiality of Statistical Information (June 15, 2007) Implementation Guidance for Title V of the E-Government Act, Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA). AGENCY: Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President. ACTION: Notice of decision. Federal Register: June 15, 2007… Continue Reading
Sunlight Foundation Launches Search Engine for Federal Documents
June 14, 2007 press release: “The Sunlight Foundation today launched a new search engine called LOUIS the Library Of Unified Information Sources to improve public access to federal documents through an all-inclusive, catalogued and cross-referenced collection of official documents from the executive and legislative branches of government…LOUIS makes it easy to search from… Continue Reading
Maine is First State to Pass Net Neutrality Legislation
Press release, June 12, 2007: “A diverse coalition of Mainers applauded the enactment today of the first net neutrality resolve in the nation. The resolution, LD 1675, recognizes the importance of full, fair and non-discriminatory access to the Internet and instructs the Public Advocate to study what can be done to protect the rights of… Continue Reading
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper on Causes of Civil War
The causes of civil war. Authors: Reynal-Querol, Marta; Djankov, Simeon; June 15, 2007, WPS4254 (33 pages, PDF) Summary: “The dominant hypothesis in the literature that studies conflict is that poverty is the main cause of civil wars. We instead analyze the effect of institutions on civil war, controlling for income per capita. In our set… Continue Reading
Office of Special Counsel Directs 18 Agencies to Preserve E-Mail for Investigation
Daniel Pulliam at Govexec.com reported, “Eighteen agencies have been asked by the Office of Special Counsel to preserve electronic information dating back to January 2001 as part of its governmentwide investigation into alleged violations of the law that limits political activity in federal agencies. The OSC task force investigating the claims has asked agencies, including… Continue Reading
