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US National Software Reference Library (NSRL) and Prior Art, Part 1

By Andrew Schulman | Published: February 10, 2014

I’ve been looking into the possible use of the US National Software Reference Library (NSRL), http://www.nsrl.nist.gov, maintained by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), as a library of software prior art. Such a library would be useful both to the US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) and to patent litigators. The original purpose […]

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US government’s National Software Reference Library (NSRL): recent article

By Andrew Schulman | Published: February 9, 2014

Reading the article, it may not seem to have anything to do with IP litigation, but this National Software Reference Library appears to potentially be an important basis for a prior-art software library (that is, not a collection of publications about software, but of text extracted from the software itself, for use as prior art). […]

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Good article on using Wayback Machine (archive.org) in patent litigation

By Andrew Schulman | Published: February 9, 2014

One important use is as a source of reliably-dated prior art. The authors discuss admissibility and authentication issues. Two additional points not made in the article: Technical experts may reasonably rely on dated web pages from archive.org. In addition to web pages, the Wayback Machine also contains a substantial amount of software with datestamps — […]

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