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Google Code Search Related to Attempts to Reform the USPTO?

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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My name is Steve Ivy and I write about technology, the open web, social software, and general nerdity on monkinetic.com. You should follow me on Twitter or subscribe to this blog if you like what you're reading. I spend my days hacking Movable Type, python, Django, and various other efforts at Wallrazer. This is my personal site.