[LINK] Google Patents: US Patents & Trademark Office data freely downloadable

Richard Chirgwin rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au
Fri Nov 5 08:46:37 AEDT 2010


Corrected!

RC

On 5/11/10 8:36 AM, Stilgherrian wrote:
> On 05/11/2010, at 8:27 AM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>> Of course, you could use the USPTO free search ...
>> http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html
>>
>> But yes, Google's interface is less intimidating.
> According to this article:
>
>      ... vastly increase the amount of U.S. Patent information available at
>      no charge ...
>
>      ... including all the current feeds that were previously only available
>      for big bucks by subscription. Also available for the first time is the
>      Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) data, which is the full
>      "wrapper" for a patent application. PAIR data was only available
>      previously on a rate-limited query-only service.
>
> It mentions that the USPTO previously saw selling this stuff on DVD as a profit centre, but:
>
>      Google now has 20 tbytes available for download, Jon Orwant tells me he
>      has another 50 tbytes on the way.
>
>      http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/11/patent-database-up-and-running.html
>
> So there nyer.
>
> Stil
>
>




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