Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080209399
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Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | Article from shortly before filing date which indicates that at the time the invention was made, there was no known automated means for determining if a given portion of source code violates a patent. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Online Publication |
| URL | http://www.informationweek.com/... |
| Author/Creator | Antone Gonsalves |
| Title | Linux Patent Group Says Microsoft's Claims Are 'Baseless' |
| Publication Date | November 21, 2006 |
| Publisher | InformationWeek |
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Excerpt
Excerpt The implication that Microsoft code could be in Linux angered the open-source community, which demanded that the software maker prove its claims. |
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I question whether or not this embodiment is enabled. To the best of my knowledge there does not exist any automated means for reliably determining if a given piece of source code infringes one or more patents. This is supported by the cited article which makes it clear that at about the time the invention was made, there was (and still is) controversy as to which Microsoft patents, if any, are infringed by Linux. If this invention were enabled, then a person of ordinary skill in the art could practice it and at least make a tentative determination.
I question whether or not this embodiment is enabled. To the best of my knowledge there does not exist any automated means for reliably determining if a given piece of source code infringes one or more patents. This is supported by the cited article which makes it clear that at about the time the invention was made, there was (and still is) controversy as to which Microsoft patents, if any, are infringed by Linux. If this invention were enabled, then a person of ordinary skill in the art could practice it and at least make a tentative determination.
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