The Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) this week gave detail on plans to host a further meeting with representatives of the open source community, in order to ensure that patent examiners have improved access to all available prior art relating to software code during the patent examination process.
In December the USPTO representatives met with members of the open source software community, following concerns that the research conducted by the Patent Office with regard to software patent applications was not always as thorough as it could be.
The group agreed to improve prior art resources available to the USPTO; to develop a system to alert the public when USPTO publishes certain software-related applications so that interested parties can submit related prior art in accordance with relevant rules and law; and, to explore developing additional criteria for measuring the quality of software patents.
As a follow-up to their December 6th meeting, the USPTO announced that another meeting will be held, on February 16th, 2006.
This meeting will be open to the public and will focus on further developing previously discussed initiatives as well as any new prior art initiatives offered at that time.
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