by Andrew Schulman | Feb 10, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
2017/02/09 04:44:27 UTC Microsoft Adds Patent Suit Protections For Cloud Customers Offer will help Microsoft distinguish itself from rivals in fast-growing internet-based computing market. “All of our customers are at some level becoming software providers of...
by Andrew Schulman | Jan 24, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
2017/01/22 08:33:26 UTC Predicting Patent Policy Under the Trump Administration | Publications | Shearman & Sterling LLP The America Invents Act (“AIA”), signed into law by President Obama on September 16, 2011, was the biggest legislative overhaul to...
by Andrew Schulman | Feb 22, 2014 | blog, Uncategorized
An earlier post notes some examples of “deep indexing” of the textual contents of commercial software products: Such deep indexing of binary code files has been done in some limited areas, such as the superb PDP-10 software archive at...
by Andrew Schulman | Feb 22, 2014 | blog, Uncategorized
The White House recently announced the US PTO’s launch of “Ask Patents” (a forum at the “Stack Exchange”) as a crowdsourcing platform to identify prior art. Right now, the forum seems to mostly have general questions and answers. There...
by Andrew Schulman | Feb 15, 2014 | blog, Uncategorized
The previous post discussed the US government’s National Software Reference Library (NSRL), a collection of 15,000 commercial products, currently indexed by files (hash, filename.ext) comprising each product. The post posed the question whether the NSRL could be...
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...