At 03:50 PM 01/21/2000 -0500, Linda Bonzo wrote:
>I'm rather new at patent searching, but it's always been my understanding
>that US patent applications aren't publicly available, unlike European
>applications. I have a client who insists that there's a way to search US
>applications, but of course can't remember where or how. Can anyone help
>me with this?
>
Welcome. This is just the first time you will be asked to answer
this question. You should be periodically having people insist on this
ability
to search US applications. But you are right in that they are not searchable.
And yes, that means you can not get a copy of it either. Sometime in the
future
you will have someone ask for a copy of the application someone else in the
company
filed. Stick by your guns and send them to the attorney who handled the
case. That
is the only way you are going to get a copy, because the USPTO doesn't care
if you
are with the same company.
>I've been a list subscriber for a few months now, and I've learned so
>much. I appreciate your sharing your time and expertise with us novices.
>
That's what this group is for, Linda. We will be here to
help you when someone request you get them a copy of the EP application
that originated with WIPO, because they just know that it was republished
and they don't want no steenking WO copy. We'll teach you how to
scratch out WO and write in EP.
Regards,
Steve Reynolds
DuPont
P.S. I'm just kidding about that scratching out stuff.
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