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MICRO
2008
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
What Kinds of Computer-Software-Related Advances (if Any) Are Eligible for Patents? Part II: The "Useful Arts" Requirement
of nature, or abstract idea (collectively, a principle). The clue to the patent-eligibility of processes that do not involve substance-transformation is whether the process impleme...
Richard Stern
DCC
2000
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
QccPack: An Open-Source Software Library for Quantization, Compression, and Coding
We describe the QccPack software package, an open-source collection of library routines and utility programs for quantization, compression, and coding of data. QccPack is being wr...
James E. Fowler
CLEF
2009
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Patent Retrieval Experiments in the Context of the CLEF IP Track 2009
At CLEF 2009 the University of Hildesheim focused on the main task of the Intellectual Property Track which aims at finding prior art for a specified patent [cf. Information Retri...
Daniela Becks, Christa Womser-Hacker, Thomas Mandl...
ORGSCI
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
The Penguin Has Entered the Building: The Commercialization of Open Source Software Products
Previous literature on open source software (OSS) mostly analyzes organizational issues within communities of developers and users. This paper focuses on profit-oriented organizat...
Andrea Fosfuri, Marco S. Giarratana, Alessandra Lu...