Open Source patent search tool

PatentCafe press release on its free Open Source Software ("OSS") Patent Search engine.

Yuba City, CA (PRWEB) January 29, 2005 -- Initially populated with IBM's 500 pledged Open Source Software patents PatentCafe has announce the opening of its Open Source Software (OSS) Patent Search Engine devoted entirely to worldwide search access to OSS patents. Through PatentCafe's ICO Global Patent Search engine -- http://www.IAMcafe.com -- software developers are now able to accurately search the entire collection of the OSS patents to find the patents most related to their software
projects.

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