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* Prior Art Collected in Litigation. Defendants in patent litigation collect substantial volumes of prior art during the course of the case. These are in the form of documents, actual hardware or software items, and claim charts which describe how the references disclose elements of the patents in suit. These references are ideal sources of data to populate the prior art repository. In some cases, the prior art has already been coded electronically in a proprietary database, thus, the prior art repository should support some form of data import.  * PACER Database. Case Files, such as those maintained on PACER in active federal court patent litigation contain a wealth of information. For example, answers to interrogatories often include a laundry list of potential prior art. To collect and maintain the most amount of information with limited input, it is necessary to tag and catalog these documents.