You may be interested in an item in the (London) Independent newspaper
today:
Thousands of US patents - yellowing copies of patents dating back to a
golden age of invention - are being thrown away as the United States Patent
and Trademark Office becomes transformed by another, more recent invention,
the computer. Full text at
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=113474
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