[Patents] prior art archiving

[PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de]

> >Write down your ideas, put them on a website and get them mirrored to
> >ffii.org.  Under        http://swpat.ffii.org/pruci/";
> 
> This is not working and I have no idea how to submit anything.

It is working.  What site do you want to have mirrored?

> Is it evil work by patent offices?

In this case even the patent offices are interested in getting this kind
of thing done.  It helps make their system look as if it worked.

Patent offices are often in need of justification for their unability to
keep track of software prior art, and they usually point to projects like
SPI (software patents intitute), which attempts to do that.  Still I don't
see it working and I don't think it can really work.

Software inventions are not published in the form of scientific articles
which can be accessed by search systems.  Usually the source code itself
*is* the publication.  Even binary code is prior art, because it is not
hard to decompile and analyse, once it is published.  How can SPI ever
possibly filter out all inventions from all software and write it down in
the only form that is open to patent searching: scientific articles in
human language ?

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phm