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One bad apple?all practitioners suffer (The USPTO and Easy Access to Public Data)

By nipper

One of my favorite quotes is: The … right to criticize either by temperate reasoning, or by immodest and indecent invective, … is the ultimate source of (citizens’) authority. –Judge Learned Hand That being said, I was thrilled to see Matt Buchanan’s new “opinions” page on his blog where he speaks his peace.  For instance, in his latest post he tackles the USPTO’s recent incidents of limiting (or at least making less accessible) public data.  Another example is the addition of the verification code in Public PAIR.  I presume* the USPTO took those actions to deal with a few data/bandwidth abusers, but am not thrilled that the data is less accessible to legitimate use by the public (and practitioners) than it used to be...continue to full post

Full post as published by Invent Blog on January 31, 2008 (boomark / email).