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Ten Ways to Improve the USPTO Website ? Number 2

By nipper

The second way to improve the USPTO.gov website would be to double check all of the information provided as facts. For example, the Full-Text Database FAQ (among other pages) notes that (emphasis added): Patents from January 1976 to the present offer the full searchable text, including all bibliographic data, such as the inventor’s name, the patent’s title, and the assignee’s name; the abstract; the full description of the invention; and the claims…. Patents from 1790 to December 1975 offer only the patent number, issue date, and current US patent classification in the text display, and can be searched only within those fields. However, this limited text display also includes a hyperlink to obtain full-page images of all pages of the patent...continue to full post

Full post as published by Invent Blog on July 27, 2010 (boomark / email).