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Introduction
The topic of this Project is: Open Source as Prior Art (should probably be renamed to FLOSS as Prior Art, just to be neutral about some political/social issues). Thus you need to know what FLOSS and Prior Art is. Here you can find some basic information:
- Free/Libre/Open-Source Software - FLOSS
- Open Source Definition
- Open-source Software
- Prior Art - Introduction to Prior Art
- Patent Top Ten - Top 10 things you should know about patents
Projects
Things that can be done right now
Use already existing publications as Prior Art
- HowTo search for Prior Art in the Internet ( HowTo search for Prior Art in the Internet )
- This HowTo is a step-by-step guide on how you could perform a coordinated search for Prior Art in the Internet.
- Prior Art meta-search engine
- (will be) a system to aid your search for Prior Art
- Example Prior Art search
- An example where the HowTo search for Prior Art is used on one specific patent
- Publication Categorization
- If you have no idea, what kind of software might be used as Prior Art for a specific patent, then look here. Basicly this is a mapping between USPTO categories and FLOSS categories.
- Request for Prior Art Mailinglist
- This might become a mailinglist where you can ask for associations to specific patents. So more people might help you to find appropriate starting-points for your Prior Art research.
Make electronic data more valuable as Prior Art
- Guideline for Developers
- What can you do to ensure your program can be used as Prior Art in 20 years
- Tagging Prototype
- Easier searching for Prior Art (or for reusing appropriate code in your own project)
- OSSTag
- A Social Tagging Engine
USPTO and Prior Art
- Patent Law - some important excerpts regarding Prior Art
- Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP)
- 900 Prior Art, Classification, and Search
- Printed and electronic publications as Prior Art
- Notice of Public Hearing and Request for Comments on Issues Related to the Identification of Prior Art During the Examination of a Patent Application . - In 1999 the USPTO issued an RFC, here you find the RFC itself and lots of comments
- Proposed Rule Changes to Focus the Patent Process in the 21st Century, Januar 2006 (link)
- Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Oversight Hearing on "Patent Quality Enhancement in the Information-Based Economy", April 5th, 2006, including Video-Stream
General
- CAPAS - Computer Aided Prior Art Search
- FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
- Milestones - General Project goals -- what people can do to help
- Motivations - The motivations behind this project
- Questions for the USPTO - Questions posed to the USPTO by members of the OSS community
- Glossary - Words, phrases, and acronyms explained
- Out of Scope - Patent reform alternatives outside the scope of this project
Recent Events
Tagging Workshop September 2006
Tagging Workshop 2006 Sep - agenda + attendees + presentations + conclusions
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License Proliferation – A way out?
Free / Open Source Software license proliferation has gone so far that companies are patenting proprietary software to solve it in the case of multi-source development process. Could copyleft license interoperability focus the F/OSS world on a handful of compatible provisions, replacing a culture of mutual exclusion by a culture of collaboration?
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request_for_prior_art_mailinglist
This might become a mailinglist where you can ask for assoziations to specific patents. So more people might help you to find appropriate starting-points for your Prior Art research.
You won't get legal advice here, so please don't ask for it!
sf/freshmeat_trove
- root
- Database Environment
- Database Environment :: Database API
- Database Environment :: Database API :: ADOdb
- Database Environment :: Database API :: JDBC
- Database Environment :: Database API :: ODBC
- Database Environment :: Database API :: Other API
- Database Environment :: Database API :: Perl DBI/DBD
- Database Environment :: Database API :: PHP Pear::DB
- Database Environment :: Database API :: Python Database API
- Database Environment :: Database API
- Database Environment
business_model
Here are some of the companies, projects, and individuals who have expressed an interest in participating in this project:
- USPTO
- Eclipse Foundation
- IBM
- Novell
- OSDL
- RedHat
- OSTG (Sourceforge.net)
- Mozilla (offered grant funding, if needed)
OSDL currently hosts this Web-Site.
aspect_oriented_tagging
As a plain flat tagging structure might be appropriate for tagging pictures it is probably not enough for tagging software-projects. Software Projects have lots of different viewpoints from which you could apply tags to it.
science_fiction_as_prior_art
Please don't laugh at this. I was once told that without Jules Verne humanity would still wait for the first Moon landing.
data_processing:_software_development,_installation,_and_management
717: DATA PROCESSING: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, INSTALLATION, AND MANAGEMENT (link)
kinds_of_meta_information
- simple what/content pairs, e.g. Homepage: http://osstag.sourceforge.net
- single words (tags), e.g. perl, xml
-> aspect oriented tagging combines what/content pairs with tagging, e.g. encoding/perl, xml
