Elsevier Awarded U.S. Patent For “Online Peer Review System and Method” by Gary Price.
Gary quotes the abstract:
An online document management system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the online document management system comprises: one or more editorial computers operated by one or more administrators or editors, the editorial computers send invitations and manage peer review of document submissions; one or more system computers, the system computers maintain journals, records of submitted documents and user profiles, and issue notifications; and one or more user computers; the user computers submit documents or revisions to the document management system; wherein one or more of the editorial computers coordinate with one or more of the system computers to migrate one or more documents between journals maintained by the online document management system.
Is there a pool on the staff that recommended and pursued that patent being awarded the sack in the next week?