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  "description": "Chemblaics (pronounced chem-bla-ics) is the science that uses open science and computers to solve problems in chemistry, biochemistry and related fields.",
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      "name": "Egon Willighagen",
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      "id": "https://doi.org/10.59350/737fz-e9f47",
      "url": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2006/01/11/uspto-considers-open-source-software.html",
      "title": "USPTO considers open source software prior art",
      "content_html": "<p>This is the best news I heard in weeks! The <a href=\"http://www.uspto.gov/\">US Patent and Trade Offfice</a> spoke with open source representatives\nabout ways to deal with open source software as prior art. Apparently, their problem was how to be sure about release dates of open source,\nand authoritative sites like <a href=\"http://www.sf.net/\">SourceForge.net</a>,\n<a href=\"http://freshmeat.net/\">FreshMeat.net</a> help a lot here, which extensive logging of releases.</p>\n\n<p>Quoting from there website:</p>\n\n<div class=\"language-plaintext highlighter-rouge\"><div class=\"highlight\"><pre class=\"highlight\"><code>The Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)\nhas created a partnership with the open source community to ensure that patent\nexaminers have access to all available prior art relating to software code\nduring the patent examination process.\n</code></pre></div></div>\n\n<p>It also indicates that releasing open source software with, or announcing it on, such an authoritative website is important! Otherwise, patent offices will not be able to decide wether our open source art is really prior.</p>",
      "summary": "This is the best news I heard in weeks! The US Patent and Trade Offfice spoke with open source representatives about ways to deal with open source software as prior art. Apparently, their problem was how to be sure about release dates of open source, and authoritative sites like SourceForge.net, FreshMeat.net help a lot here, which extensive logging of releases.",
      
      "date_published": "2006-01-11T00:00:00+00:00",
      "date_modified": "2025-02-13T00:00:00+00:00",
      "tags": ["openscience"],
      
      
      
      
      
      
        "authors": [ { "name": "Egon Willighagen", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286" } ]
      
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