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How do we know that users aren't lying about their uploads? #46

Open slifty opened 5 years ago

slifty commented 5 years ago

What protections do we have in place to ensure that users are not uploading fake information to the Prior Art archive (e.g. publication dates that are earlier than an actual publication, etc)?

reefdog commented 5 years ago

Something alluded to in #28 is a verification process for new registrants/organizations. Perhaps if we allow open registration, we at least have a "verified" process that adds a verified badge next to things uploaded by manually-verified orgs.

metasj commented 5 years ago

Authorship date and reported-publication date are not legally significant (though links to a public database record like a DOI can be, a future feature). This Archive generates a new [prior art publication date] on upload.

slifty commented 5 years ago

@metasj we should discuss -- in our conversation with Philip the original publication date sounded like a very important feature for patent officers who are trying to filter results.

wendylow1 commented 5 years ago

At the meeting, we discussed there should be a Disclaimer to cover legal liability against fraud. Do we currently have a Disclaimer where new user need to accept upon sign-up?