by Andrew Schulman | Feb 10, 2014 | blog, Uncategorized
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...
by Andrew Schulman | Feb 9, 2014 | blog, Uncategorized
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...
by Andrew Schulman | Feb 9, 2014 | blog, Uncategorized
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...
by Andrew Schulman | Feb 9, 2014 | blog, Uncategorized
http://www.americanlawyer.com/id=1202625182156?slreturn=20140109114240 5 Avoidable Pitfalls in Source Code Discovery by David A. Prange and Esam A. Sharafuddin This is one of the few times I’ve seen the important point made: “Don’t assume that a...
by Andrew Schulman | Mar 23, 2011 | blog, Uncategorized
Uploaded a ZIP file with about 275 old source-code files, as part of a test of Google Code Search: http://www.softwarelitigationconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/schulcode.zip And another:...
by Andrew Schulman | Mar 22, 2011 | blog, Uncategorized
Notes for a discussion of California trade secrets: PDF file