• FOSS - Free and Open Source Software
• MPEP - Manual of Patent Examining Procedures
• OSS - Open Source Software
• USPTO - United States Patent and Trade Office

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Guideline

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.

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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.

David Mohring asked [1][2]

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