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USPTO News: Office Summarizes Feedback on Public PAIR Access

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today released a summary of the feedback it received in response to its April 30, 2008 webcast concerning user access to the Public Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) system. During the webcast, Commissioner for Patents John Doll and Deputy Chief Information Officer Deborah Diaz noted that the Office had implemented a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) tool in order to distinguish human users from automated scripts. Commissioner Doll and Deputy CIO Diaz also requested that PAIR users submit comments concerning their use of...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 18, 2008 (boomark / email).