Greg,
Your inferences are your own; they are not necessarily congruent with my
implications.
The questions I answered clearly did not concern CD-ROM products. The
context referred to "database...maintenance and updates", and a "system"
being "up and down". None of these terms and phrases apply to CD-ROMs,
particularly as Dataware has never provided PTO with any production service
related to CD-ROMs -- indeed, no production service of any type other than
the Patent Full-Text Database.
Regards,
Larry Larson, USPTO
> -----Original Message-----
> From: srctran@world.std.com [mailto:srctran@world.std.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 1:38 PM
> To: PIUG-L@derwent.co.uk; srctran@world.std.com;
> Larry.Larson@USPTO.GOV
> Subject: RE: A question on Dataware
>
>
> >(Sigh. Nothing is "up", Greg, as you undoubtedly well know.
> Of course you
> >have had my email address for many years, and could have
> emailed me directly
> >with these questions, as you also well know. Feel free to
> email me directly
> >for definitions of "activism" versus "muckraking.")
>
> Feel free to email me on the proper manners for a government
> employee to
> public or privately criticize a taxpaying citizen.
>
> The CASSIS CDROMs have always been crap technology. So there
> is always
> something up with this stuff, not that I actually cared about this
> particular question.
>
> I have a DVD I have burned myself with the abstracts to all
> patents since
> 1976, plus a search engine more powerful than thelame ones on
> the CASSIS
> CDROMs plus at the PTO Web site (and which includes a C
> program that fixes
> all of the errors in the Green Book data for the last twenty
> five years
> for the bibliographic data). I should start a little
> business selling them
> for a few bucks. Not as if all of these high-falutin PTO contractors
> are doing any interesting themselves to help serve the public (like
> writing some statistical analysis programs to sift through
> the combined
> PAIR and fulltext databases).
>
> Greg Aharonian
>
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