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| In its ongoing efforts to improve the examination of software patents
| and resolve continued concerns over their quality, the U.S. Patent and
| Trademark Office (PTO) has partnered with IBM, Open Source Development
| Labs (OSDL) and the open-source community to try and achieve this goal.
| Among the proposals is the idea of establishing a searchable database
| containing an index of open-source computer code. This database should
| make it easier for software code developers and patent examiners to
| locate relevant prior art.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1153299925909
Groklaw retains a database of some UNIX methods. Now there will be something
more official. The IP threat seems weaker than ever before.
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