Re: USPTO Patent Application Search

From: Osamu Yamane (o-yamane@ak.jp.nec.com)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 00:37:21 GMT


Hello there

At Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:28:01 -0500,
Larry.Larson@uspto.gov wrote:
>
> Both the patent grant and published patent application databases require at
> least three characters before right truncation in the ICL field.
>

The following link would be helpful.
  http://www.uspto.gov/patft/helpadv.htm#right

I think that the system would be more user-friendly
if it warns the user when shorter strings are given
for the right trancation.

Osamu Yamane



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