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Submission + - Google Launches Patent Search

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Alexander Limi

on Thursday December 14, 2006 @05:18AM

Alexander Limi writes: "The busy guys here at Google launched Google Patent Search today, which makes it possible to search all USPTO patents. To make this search they acquired the patent images and metadata from the USPTO and ran the images through OCR before building an index and front-end like they have done for books. Check out some funny and ridiculous patents."

Submission + - Eben Moglen Keynote on Software and Communities

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Alexander Limi

on Friday November 24, 2006 @11:44AM

Alexander Limi writes: "When was the last time an intellectual property lawyer moved you to tears? At the Plone Conference this year, Eben Moglen (of FSF, GPLv3 and the recent Novell-MS debacle fame) from the Software Freedom Law Center gave the talk "Software and Community in the 21st Century" that sums up why free software is so important.

Eben traces the connections between the free software movement, the One Laptop Per Child project, the past three hundred years of modern industrial economic development, and places our work into the larger context of the ongoing journey towards freedom and equality for all people.

Share it with someone you love who's been wondering what you do and why it matters."

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