I was reading an old article on ars technica (IBM and OSDL to help Patent Office get organized -Jan 2006) about IBM’s work with the USPTO to help reform the patent system, and ran across this quote:
The second part of the new system would be a public, searchable (with search possibly provided by Google), and up-to-date database of Open Source code.
Sounds familiar, sort of like Google Code Search, announced sometime in the last couple months I think. I wonder if Code Search came out of work done while looking into this prior-art database?
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