Example: The Japanese Patent Office is scanning all of its
patent documents (back to 1886) for free distribution over the
Internet. The hitch: They are being scanned at 100 dpi to
save on bandwidth. For reference, facsimile is 100 dpi at
low resolution and 200 dpi at high resolution.
Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> >How shall national patent offices react? Is there a risk for the
> >consumer of patent information that IBM (or others) could stop its
> >initiative? ......
>
> What makes most economic and logistic sense to me is for all of the
> national patent offices around the world, under the sponsorship of
> WIPO, to create and maintain one joint patent information database
> (with reflectors around the world). Patent information distribution
> is one of the reason governments and inventors pay money to paetnt
> offices, and given the confidentiality concerns about patent
> searching, I prefer to see as much as this as possible out of the
> hands of nongovernment entities.
>
> Greg Aharonian
-- Alan Engel ISTA, Inc. ConvertedKokai(tm) machine translations of Japanese patents http://www.intlscience.com