Welcome to the Open Source as Prior Art [1] Project Wiki.
If you want to help please join the mailing list [2] and/or contribute to this wiki: Things that can be done right now [3]
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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 [4] - FLOSS
- Open Source Definition [5]
- Open-source Software [6]
- Prior Art [7] - Introduction to Prior Art
- Patent Top Ten [8] - Top 10 things you should know about patents
Projects
Things that can be done right now [3]
Use already existing publications as Prior Art
- HowTo search for Prior Art in the Internet [9] ( HowTo search for Prior Art in the Internet [10])
- 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 [11]
- (will be) a system to aid your search for Prior Art
- Example Prior Art search [12]
- An example where the HowTo search for Prior Art is used on one specific patent
- Publication Categorization [13]
- 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 [14]
- 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 [16]
- What can you do to ensure your program can be used as Prior Art in 20 years
- Tagging Prototype [17]
- Easier searching for Prior Art (or for reusing appropriate code in your own project)
- OSSTag [18]
- A Social Tagging Engine
USPTO and Prior Art
- Patent Law [19] - some important excerpts regarding Prior Art
- Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) [20]
- 900 Prior Art, Classification, and Search [21]
- Printed and electronic publications as Prior Art [22]
- Notice of Public Hearing and Request for Comments on Issues Related to the Identification of Prior Art During the Examination of a Patent Application [23]. - 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 [24])
- Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Oversight Hearing on "Patent Quality Enhancement in the Information-Based Economy" [25], April 5th, 2006, including Video-Stream
General
- CAPAS [26] - Computer Aided Prior Art Search
- FAQ [27] - Frequently Asked Questions
- Milestones [28] - General Project goals -- what people can do to help
- Motivations [29] - The motivations behind this project
- Questions for the USPTO [30] - Questions posed to the USPTO by members of the OSS community
- Glossary [31] - Words, phrases, and acronyms explained
- Out of Scope [32] - Patent reform alternatives outside the scope of this project
Recent Events
Tagging Workshop September 2006
Tagging Workshop 2006 Sep [33] - agenda + attendees + presentations + conclusions
See the Wiki User's Guide [34] for help on using this Wiki.
timestamping_service [35]
This page is talking about a proposal.
Here I will very soon publish a framework for an official timestamping service, which I regard as essential for assigning legally provable publication dates, which are also needed for free and open source software publications.
- Read more [35]
pt_alternatives [39]
<< Public Timestamp [40]
Other timestamping services, that we plan to use all together automatically for each timestamped file on publictimestamp.org
- Read more [39]
tagging_workshop_2006_sep_kees [42]
<< back [33]
"Tags are a short-hand for documentation. People really want documentation."
- Read more [42]
faq [50]
If you have questions that aren't answered here, please either login and add a question, or join the discussion [51].
Q. What qualifies as Prior Art?
A. See Prior Art [7].
- Read more [50]
sccs_(source_code_control_system) [56]
- SCCS (Source Code Control System) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCCS [57]
- It was originally developed at Bell Labs in 1972 by Marc Rochkind for an IBM System/370 computer running OS/MVT. (cited [57])
- Read more [56]
priorart:about [61]
For more information, please see the Open Source Software as Prior Art [62] project details.