Forgive me,
But, I imagine that the "high-falutin PTO contractors"
have successfully bid on and won a government contract. I also imagine that
they are doing what they have bid on.
Mr. Aharonian should indeed go into business - offering an added value
product.
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-piug-l@derwent.co.uk [mailto:owner-piug-l@derwent.co.uk]On
Behalf Of Gregory Aharonian
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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