bib/OSS.bib

@techreport{Novell04a,
 author="Novell",
 title="Patent Policy",
 institution="Novell",
 address="Waltham, Massachusetts",
 year="2004",
 number="\url{http://www.novell.com/company/policies/patent/}
[Viewed October 12, 2004]",
 month="October",
 pages="1",
}

@unpublished{DavidSMiller04a,
 author="Dave Miller",
 title="Re: RCU patent license for GPL'ed software",
 year="2004",
 month="October",
 day="6",
 note="Message-ID <20041006091002.3b87743d.davem@davemloft.net>",
}

@Book{Merrill04a,
 Author="Stephen A. Merrill and Richard C. Levin and Mark B. Meyers",
 title="A Patent System for the 21\textsuperscript{st} Century",
 Publisher="The National Academies Press",
 Year="2004",
 Address="Washington, D.C.",
 Pages="171",
}

@unpublished{VaugnNichols04a,
 Author="Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols",
 Title="Software Patents Gone Bad",
 month="October",
 year="2004",
 note="Available:
\url{http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1666755,00.asp}
[Viewed October 12, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{RichardMStallman04b,
 Author="Richard Stallman",
 Title="Fighting Software Patents - Singly and Together",
 month="October",
 year="2004",
 note="Available:
\url{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html}
[Viewed October 12, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{Ravicher04a,
 Author="Public Patent Foundation",
 Title="About PubPat",
 month="October",
 year="2004",
 note="Available:
\url{http://www.pubpat.org/About.htm}
[Viewed October 12, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{Bray04a,
 Author="Tim Bray",
 Title="Patent Theory",
 month="October",
 year="2004",
 note="Available:
\url{http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/10/12/PatentTheory}
[Viewed October 13, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{Tridgell04a,
 author="Andrew Tridgell",
 title="call",
 year="2004",
 month="October",
 day="14",
 note="Message-ID <16749.55904.877214.309526@samba.org>",
}

@unpublished{RustyRussell2003OLSkeynote,
 author="Rusty Russell",
 title="Hanging Out With Smart People: or... Things {I} Learned Being A Kernel Monkey",
 year="2003",
 month="July",
 day="25",
 note="2003 Ottawa Linux Symposium Keynote \url{http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/ols-2003-keynote/ols-keynote-2003.html}",
}

@unpublished{Torvalds03a,
 author="Linus Torvalds",
 title="Open Letter on Software Patents from Linux developers",
 year="2003",
 month="September",
 day="21",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.effi.org/patentit/patents\_torvalds\_cox.txt}
[Viewed October 14, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{DustinKirkland04a,
 Author="Dustin Kirkland",
 Title="OSIPHA: the Open Source Intellectual Property Holding Authority",
 month="October",
 year="2004",
 note="Message-ID:
<OF682AAB2D.DCCC812E-ON87256F33.0073FE27-86256F33.007C687C@us.ibm.com>:",
}

@unpublished{RustyRussell04a,
 author="Rusty Russell",
 title="The trouble with software patents",
 year="2004",
 month="October",
 day="15",
 note="Available: \url{http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/IP/2004-10-14.html}
[Viewed October 24, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{RaphLevien04a,
 author="Raph Levien",
 title="GPL patent grant for 19 patents",
 year="2000",
 month="May",
 day="11",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.advogato.org/article/89.html}
[Viewed October 24, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{LPF94a,
 author="{League for Programming Freedom}",
 title="Mutual Defense Against Software Patents",
 year="1994",
 month="January",
 day="28",
 note="Available: \url{http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/mutual-def.html}
[Viewed October 24, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{LPF94b,
 author="{League for Programming Freedom}",
 title="IBM Think Article",
 year="1994",
 month="January",
 day="28",
 note="Available: \url{http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Links/prep.ai.mit.edu/ibm.think.article}
[Viewed October 24, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{ZDNetUK20041027a,
 author="Ingrid Marston",
 title="OSDL considers open-source code repository",
 year="2004",
 month="October",
 day="27",
 note="Available: \url{http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39171572,00.htm}
[Viewed October 28, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{FlorianMueller04a,
 author="Florian Mueller",
 title="No Software Patents!",
 year="2004",
 month="October",
 day="27",
 note="Available: \url{http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39171572,00.htm}
[Viewed October 28, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{RichardMStallman01a,
 author="Richard Stallman",
 title="Science must `push copyright aside'",
 year="2001",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/stallman.html}
[Viewed October 28, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{MITAILPF,
 author="MIT AI Laboratory",
 title="Software Patents",
 year="2003",
 note="Available: \url{http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/patents.html}
[Viewed October 28, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{RichardMStallman04a,
 author="Richard Stallman",
 title="Richard {Stallman} on Software Patents",
 year="2004",
 month="October",
 day="14",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.ariel.com.au/essays/rms-unsw-2004-10-14.html}
[Viewed October 28, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{RichardMStallman94a,
 author="Richard M Stallman",
 title="Why Software Should Not Have Owners",
 year="1994",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html}
[Viewed November 3, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{RichardMStallman04c,
 author="Richard M Stallman",
 title="Some Confusing or Loaded Words and Phrases that are Worth Avoiding",
 year="2004",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html}
[Viewed November 3, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{RichardMStallman01b,
 author="Richard M Stallman",
 title="Categories of Free and Non-Free Software",
 year="2001",
 note="Available: Categories of Free and Non-Free Software
[Viewed November 3, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{RichardMStallman04d,
 author="Richard M Stallman",
 title="The Free Software Definition",
 year="2004",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html}
[Viewed November 4, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{Tamiya00a,
 author="Maya Tamiya",
 title="Eric {Raymond} Interview",
 year="2000",
 month="December",
 day="10",
 note="Available: \url{http://lwn.net/2000/features/ESR/}
[Viewed November 4, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{MatthewBroersma02a,
 author="Matthew Broersma",
 title="Eric {Raymond}: Why open source will rule",
 year="2002",
 note="Available: \url{http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513\_22-871366.html}
[Viewed November 4, 2004]",
}

@inbook{EricSRaymond99a,
 author="Eric S. Raymond",
 title="Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution",
 chapter="The Revenge of the Hackers",
 publisher="O'Reilly",
 year="1999",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/raymond2.html}
[Viewed November 4, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{EricSRaymond01a,
 author="Eric S. Raymond",
 title="{OSI} letter of comment on {W3C}'s proposed {RAND} policy",
 year="2001",
 note="Available: \url{http://lwn.net/2001/1011/a/osi-w3c.php3}
[Viewed November 4, 2004]",
}

@inbook{EricSRaymond99aMagicCauldron,
 author="Eric S. Raymond",
 title="The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by
an Accidental Revolutionary",
 chapter="The Magic Cauldron",
 publisher="O'Reilly",
 year="1999",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/magic-cauldron/magic-cauldron.ps}
[Viewed November 4, 2004]",
}

@inbook{EricSRaymond99aHomesteading,
 author="Eric S. Raymond",
 title="The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by
an Accidental Revolutionary",
 chapter="Homesteading the Noosphere",
 publisher="O'Reilly",
 year="1999",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/magic-cauldron/homesteading.ps}
[Viewed November 4, 2004]",
}

@book{EricSRaymond99b,
 author="Eric S. Raymond",
 title="The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by
an Accidental Revolutionary",
 publisher="O'Reilly",
 year="1999",
}

@unpublished{InaFried04a,
 author="Ina Fried",
 title="Microsoft--license to deal",
 year="2004",
 month="November",
 day="8",
 note="Available: \url{http://news.com.com/Microsoft--license+to+deal/2100-1012_3-5440881.html}
[Viewed November 8, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{MicrosoftLicense04a,
 author="{Microsoft Corporation}",
 title="Royalty Free Protocol License Agreement",
 year="2004",
 note="Available: \url{http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/randz/protocol/royalty_free_protocol_license_agreement.asp}
[Viewed November 8, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{BrucePerens02a,
 author="Bruce Perens",
 title="Sincere Choice",
 year="2002",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.sincerechoice.org/}
[Viewed November 10, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{BrucePerens03a,
 author="Bruce Perens",
 title="False Open Source Representative Calls for {European} Software Patents",
 year="2003",
 month="May",
 note="Available: \url{http://perens.com/Articles/Taylor/}
[Viewed November 10, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{BrucePerens04a,
 author="Bruce Perens",
 title="The Problem of Software Patents in Standards",
 year="2004",
 month="November",
 note="Available: \url{http://perens.com/Articles/PatentFarming.html}
[Viewed November 10, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{BrucePerens04b,
 author="Clark Boyd",
 title="Software patents `threaten {Linux}'",
 year="2004",
 month="January",
 note="Available: \url{http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3422853.stm}
[Viewed November 10, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{BrucePerens01a,
 author="Bruce Perens",
 title="Software Patents vs. Free Software",
 year="2001",
 month="May",
 note="Available: \url{http://linuxtoday.com/mailprint.php3?action=pv&ltsn=2001-05-03-007-20-OP-CY}
[Viewed November 10, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{MatthewNewton04a,
 author="Matthew Newton",
 title="The State of Open Source",
 year="2004",
 month="January",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114458,00.asp}
[Viewed November 10, 2004]",
}

@book{USConstitution1787,
 author="George Washington",
 title="The Constitution of the {United} {States}",
 publisher="United States of America",
 year="1787",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html}
[Viewed November 10, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{RichardMStallman02a,
 author="Richard M Stallman",
 title="The Danger of Software Patents",
 year="2004",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.ftc.gov/os/comments/intelpropertycomments/stallmanrichard.pdf}
[Viewed November 15, 2004]",
}

@article{TheEconomist20041111a,
 author="Economist",
 title="Monopolies of the Mind",
 journal="The Economist",
 year="2004",
 month=November,
 day="11",
}

@unpublished{RustyRussell04b,
 author="Rusty Russell",
 title="Software and Patent Protection",
 year="2004",
 note="Available: \url{http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/IP/software-patentability.html}
[Viewed November 19, 2004]",
}

@book{LawrenceRosen04a,
 author="Lawrence Rosen",
 title="Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law",
 publisher="Prentice Hall PTR",
 year="2004",
}

@unpublished{SteveBallmer04a,
 author="Reuters",
 title="Microsoft's {Ballmer} Warns {Asia} of {Linux} Lawsuits",
 year="2004",
 month="November",
 day="18",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=6851307&src=rss/technologyNews&section=news}
[Viewed November 18, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{theinquirer20041118a,
 author="{The Inquirer}",
 title="Poland scuppers {EU} software patents directive",
 year="2004",
 month="November",
 day="17",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19736}
[Viewed November 18, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{StephenShankland20040801a,
 author="Stephen Shankland",
 title="Group: {Linux} potentially infringes 283 patents",
 year="2004",
 month="August",
 day="1",
 note="Available: \url{http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5291403.html}
[Viewed November 18, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{USPTO2004May-610,
 author="{United States Patent and Trademark Office}",
 title="Third Party Submission of Patents or Publications in a Published
Application",
 year="2004",
 month="May",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/0600_610.htm#sect610}
[Viewed November 19, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{USPTO2004May,
 author="{United States Patent and Trademark Office}",
 title="Manual of Patent Examining Procedure",
 year="2004",
 month="May",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/index.htm#doclist}
[Viewed November 19, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{USPTO2004May35USC122,
 author="{United States Patent and Trademark Office}",
 title="Confidential status of applications; publication of patent applications",
 year="2004",
 month="May",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/index.htm#doclist}
[Viewed November 19, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{USPTO2004Sep35-2200,
 author="{United States Patent and Trademark Office}",
 title="Ex Parte Reexamination",
 year="2004",
 month="September",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/2200_2209.htm#sect2209}
[Viewed April 7, 2005]",
}

@unpublished{USPTO2004Sep-2006.06,
 author="{United States Patent and Trademark Office}",
 title="Ex Parte Reexamination",
 year="2004",
 month="September",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/2200_2209.htm#sect2209}
[Viewed April 7, 2005]",
}

@unpublished{IPdotCOM,
 author="{ip.com}",
 title="The source of {eCredibility}",
 year="2005",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.ip.com/}
[Viewed April 8, 2005]",
}

@article{StephenMMaurer02a,
 author="Stephen M Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer",
 title="The Independent Invention Defence in Intellectual Property",
 year="2002",
 volume="69",
 number="276",
 journal="Economica",
 note="Available: \url{http://econpapers.hhs.se/article/blaeconom/v_3A69_3Ay_3A2002_3Ai_3A276_3Ap_3A535-47.htm}
[Viewed November 19, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{WikipediaSubmarinePatent,
 author="{Wikipedia}",
 title="Submarine Patent",
 year="2004",
 month="November",
 note="Available: \url{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_patent}
[Viewed November 22, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{HaraldWelte2004a,
 author="Harald Welte",
 title="netfilter project was granted a preliminary injunction against {Sitecom} {GmbH}",
 year="2004",
 month="April",
 day=14,
 note="Available: \url{http://www.netfilter.org/news/2004-04-15-sitecom-gpl.html}
[Viewed November 22, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{HaraldWelte2004b,
 author="Harald Welte",
 title="netfilter project {GPL} settlement with {Securepoint}",
 year="2004",
 month="March",
 day=25,
 note="Available: \url{http://www.netfilter.org/news/2004-03-25-securepoint-gpl.html}
[Viewed November 23, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{HaraldWelte2004c,
 author="Harald Welte",
 title="netfilter project {GPL} settlement with {ASUS}",
 year="2004",
 month="March",
 day=25,
 note="Available: \url{http://www.netfilter.org/news/2004-03-25-asus-gpl.html}
[Viewed November 23, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{HaraldWelte2004d,
 author="Harald Welte",
 title="netfilter project reaches out-of-court settlement with {Fujitsu}-{Siemens}",
 year="2004",
 month="March",
 day=2,
 note="Available: \url{http://www.netfilter.org/news/2004-03-02-fsc-gpl.html}
[Viewed November 23, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{HaraldWelte2004e,
 author="Harald Welte",
 title="netfilter project reaches out-of-court settlement with {Allnet} {GmbH}",
 year="2004",
 month="February",
 day=2,
 note="Available: \url{http://www.netfilter.org/news/2004-02-17-allnet-gpl.html}
[Viewed November 23, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{DanRavicher2004a,
 author="Dan Ravicher",
 title="At {PUBPAT}'s Request, Patent Office Rejects {Microsoft}'s {FAT} Patent",
 year="2004",
 month="September",
 day=30,
 note="Available: \url{http://pubpat.org/Microsoft_517_Rejected.htm}
[Viewed November 22, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{ZDNetUK20041118a,
 author="{ZDNet UK}",
 title="European software patents not pending",
 year="2004",
 month="November",
 day=18,
 note="Available: \url{http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020505,39174245,00.htm}
[Viewed November 22, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{RichardMStallman04e,
 author="Richard M Stallman",
 title="Various Licenses and Comments about Them",
 year="2004",
 month="November",
 day=4,
 note="Available: \url{http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html}
[Viewed November 22, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{RichardMStallman04f,
 author="Richard M Stallman",
 title="Software Idea Patents",
 year="2004",
 month="October",
 day=18,
 note="Available: \url{http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041018113238672&query=stallman+patent}
[Viewed November 22, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{JamesBoyle04a,
 author="James Boyle",
 title="A natural experiment",
 year="2004",
 month="November",
 day=22,
 note="Available: \url{//news.ft.com/cms/s/4cd4941e-3cab-11d9-bb7b-00000e2511c8.html}
[Viewed November 23, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{LinusTorvalds04a,
 author="Linus Torvalds and Michael Widenius and Rasmus Lerdorf",
 title="Appeal to the {EU} {Council}",
 year="2004",
 month="November",
 day=23,
 note="Available: \url{http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/app0411.html}
[Viewed November 23, 2004]",
}

@techreport{DennisMRitchie79a,
 author="Dennis M. Ritchie",
 title="Protection of data file contents",
 institution="Assigned to Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated",
 address="Washington, DC",
 year="1979",
 number="US Patent 4,135,240",
 month="January",
 pages="16",
}

@unpublished{RichardMStallman04g,
 author="Richard M. Stallman",
 title="Misinterpreting Copyright",
 year="2004",
 month="June",
 day=6,
 note="Available: \url{http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html}
[Viewed November 23, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{AnnaleeNewitz01a,
 author="Annalee Newitz",
 title="Dmitry Sklyarov, Arrested for Resisting {eBooks}",
 year="2001",
 month="July",
 day=31,
 note="Available: \url{http://www.alternet.org/story/11252}
[Viewed November 23, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{OSRM04a,
 author="{Open Source Risk Management}",
 title="{Open Source Risk Management} Offerings",
 year="2004",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.osriskmanagement.com/offerings.shtml}
[Viewed November 23, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{PLoS04a,
 author="{Public Library of Science}",
 title="Public {Library} of {Science}",
 year="2004",
 month="October",
 day="19",
 note="Available: \url{http://plos.org}
[Viewed November 27, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{RichardMStallman03a,
 author="Richard M. Stallman",
 title="{GNU} {Free} {Documentation} {License}",
 year="2003",
 month="June",
 day="28",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html}
[Viewed November 29, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{CreativeCommons04a,
 author="{Creative Commons}",
 title="{Creative} {Commons} {Commons} {Deed}",
 year="2004",
 note="Available: \url{http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/}
[Viewed November 29, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{RichardMStallman04h,
 author="Richard M. Stallman",
 title="What is Copyleft?",
 year="2004",
 month="October",
 day="29",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/}
[Viewed November 29, 2004]",
}

@unpublished{PamelaJones05a,
 author="Pamela Jones",
 title="MS Gets 2 New Patents",
 year="2005",
 month="January",
 day="4",
 note="Available: \url{http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2005010406110017}
[Viewed January 6, 2005]",
}

@unpublished{michael04a,
 author="michael",
 title="Microsoft Patents {'IsNot'}, Enlists {WTO}",
 year="2004",
 month="November",
 day="19",
 note="Available: \url{http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/19/1426256&from=rss}
[Viewed January 6, 2005]",
}

@unpublished{borgheron04a,
 author="borgheron",
 title="There is a period during which people can submit...",
 year="2004",
 month="November",
 day="19",
 note="Available: \url{http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=130264&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=155&tid=109&mode=thread&cid=10866107}
[Viewed January 6, 2005]",
}

@unpublished{DavidBerlind05a,
 author="David Berlind",
 title="IBM's 500 Patents: Gift or gauntlet?",
 year="2005",
 month="January",
 day="12",
 note="Available: \url{http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=917#more-917}
[Viewed January 13, 2005]",
}

@unpublished{xml.org05apatent,
 author="xml.org",
 title="Patents and Open Standards",
 year="2005",
 month="February",
 day="25",
 note="Available: \url{http://xml.coverpages.org/patents.html}
[Viewed March 25, 2005]",
}


@techreport{USPatent6249906,
 author="Frank Elliot Levine and Charles Philip Roth",
 title="Adaptive method and system to minimize the effect of long table walks",
 institution="Assigned to International Business Machines Corp.",
 address="Washington, DC",
 year="2001",
 number="US Patent 6,249,906",
 month="June",
 pages="23",
}

@article{WenWen2015OpeningUpIP,
 author="Wen Wen and Marco Ceccagnoli and Chris Forman",
 title="Opening Up Intellectual Property Strategy: Implications for Open Source Software Entry by Start-up Firms",
 journal="Management Science",
 year="2015",
 volume=2015,
 number=2247,
 pages="24",
}


@techreport{USPatent5764983,
 author="Chee Heng Chew and Joseph D. Belfiore",
 title="Method and system for efficiently creating a new file associated
with an application program",
 institution="Assigned to Microsoft Corporation",
 address="Washington, DC",
 year="1998",
 number="US Patent 5,764,983",
 month="June",
 pages="34",
}

@techreport{USPatent5758360,
 author="Mark Zbikowski and Brian T Berkowitz and Robert I. Ferguson",
 title="Meta-data structure and handling",
 institution="Assigned to Microsoft Corporation",
 address="Washington, DC",
 year="1998",
 number="US Patent 5,758,360",
 month="May",
 pages="17",
}

@techreport{USPatent5752038,
 author="Russ Blake and Reza M. Baghai and Lee A. Smith",
 title="Method and system for determining an optimal placement order for
code portions within a module",
 institution="Assigned to Microsoft Corporation",
 address="Washington, DC",
 year="1998",
 number="US Patent 5,752,038",
 month="May",
 pages="25",
}

@techreport{USPatent5682469,
 author="Barry J. Linnett and Karen E. Fries and Lawrence H. Powelson",
 title="Software platform having a real world interface with animated
characters",
 institution="Assigned to Microsoft Corporation",
 address="Washington, DC",
 year="1997",
 number="US Patent 5,682,469",
 month="October",
 pages="29",
}

@techreport{USPatent5680458,
 author="Jeffrey F. Spelman and Matthew W. Thomlinson",
 title="Root key compromise recovery",
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