Wednesday, January 11

Patents vs Open Source to Patents with Open Source

US Patent office to partner with the open source community to improve quality of software patents.

Key Points

1. Open source recognized as prior art. A consortium including IBM to build a searchable database of open source

2. Public can send emails on review of patent applications to identify prior art

3. Development of patent quality index http://www.patentqualityindex.org/.

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