From the
Public Hearings index:
Public Hearings on Software
Patents
In 1994, The PTO held two public hearings on software patent
protection; full details are available in the Federal Register Notice.
Hearing transcripts and prepared
remarks.
You may browse through the list of presenters by selecting
either the Arlington or the San Jose hearings. Alternately, select any of the following links to
retrieve the full text of the transcripts.
San Jose hearings
transcripts
Arlington Transcripts
Many
of the speakers at the public hearings also submitted written prepared comments.
An incomplete collection of these comments may be retrieved in ASCII (Unix linefeeds) (520k), compressed ASCII (216k), or GNUzipped ASCII (192k) formats. The full text of the written
comments will be available shortly in both browseable and searchable
form.
Questions regarding the hearings and future developments regarding
this issue can be addressed to Mr. Kushan at kushan@uspto.gov. Technical
questions regarding accessing and retrieving files, and other general questions
about this site (including suggestions for improvements and other items you'd
like to see) should be sent to .
I checked to see I got all the links
valid by copying the above into a file with a suffix of .html and using Download
Them All. It'd be interesting to know of the Microsoft Office formats could be
successfully opened The PDF files are in a nice format, although may be too low
a resolution to scan (and are two column).
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