priorart-discuss -- OSS and USPTO prior art discussions
About priorart-discuss	English (USA)
This forum is for OSS community members and USPTO folks to discuss searching and prior art identification methods and to find a way to help the USPTO improve their chances of finding Open Source prior art while examining patent applications. For more details, please see: http://developer.osdl.org/dev/priorart/ To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the priorart-discuss Archives.
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