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.
jan's_conclusions [41]
<< back [33]
Hi,
finally I have some time to work through all the
stuff we discussed on the Tagging Workshop.
Topics I would like to discuss:
- Read more [41]
current_events [42]
Feb 16, 2006
The USPTO will be hosting a public meeting in Alexandria, VA to continue to discuss the 3 Patent Quality Initiatives further. Once this has has been officially announced, we will have more information here.
classifications_schemes [43]
- Office of Patent Classification [44]
- The US Patent Office's classification [45], which is likely a must when dealing with US patents, with the following software-related classes:
- Read more [43]
milestones [53]
This is a very young project, so setting our milestones will help us maintain our direction.
Please stay constructive, treat everyone with respect -- no flaming or baiting
Communication: discussion [54]
- Read more [53]
manpage_extraction [56]
#!/bin/bash
set -e
DESTDIR="$1"
shift
if [ ! -d "$DESTDIR" ]; then
echo "Extract documentation to which directory?" >&2
exit 1
fi
TEMPDIR=`mktemp -d -t doc-XXXXXX`
while [ -f "$1" ];
do
DEB="$1"
shift
echo "Checking $DEB ..."
dpkg-deb -c "$DEB" | egrep ' \./usr/share/man/man.' >/dev/null || {
echo "Skipping $DEB (no man pages)"
continue
}
echo "Extracting $DEB ..." - Read more [56]
guideline_for_developers [64]
<< back [61]
This guideline is not a do all or nothing guideline, but the more of the things stated here you'll do, the better your program can be used as Prior Art.
- Read more [64]
publication_categorization [66]
<< back [61]
Here we try to collect Projects and Software-Categories, which are likely to be useful as Prior Art for patents in a specific USPTO Patent Classification. We also try to direct you to the evidence that such software has been published at some given date.
Basicly this is a mapping between USPTO categories and FLOSS categories.
- Read more [66]