Re: USPTO Patent Search

From: K.Senthil Kumar (senthil8@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 09:14:14 GMT


When you do a search on the USPTO site, though it is showing "Results of
Search in 1996-2001 db", the results are upto 29 January 2002.

Regards

K. Senthilkumar
Scientist-Information Systems
APL Research Centre
Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.
Plot No.2, Maitri Vihar
Ameerpet
Hyderabad - 500 038
India

>From: Mary Thomson <mat@mtallan.com>
>To: PIUG-L@derwent.co.uk
>Subject: USPTO Patent Search
>Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 09:25:32 -0500
>
>I tried a quick search on the USPTO site today, for issued US patents. The
>search screen states:
>
>"Data current through 01/29/2002"
>
>But the results screen tells me:
>
>"Results of Search in 1996-2001 db"
>
>and the results list stops at the end of Dec 2001. I am pretty sure this
>was working correctly last month (i.e. I could find records from 2002).
>Has
>anyone else run into this?
>
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>Dr. Mary Thomson
>email: mat@mtallan.com
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