Re: Espacenet

Drew Patty (rap@patentcounsel.com)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:43:49 -0600

Hmm. Good point w/ respect to their representations about full text. I
guess "accessible" is more synonymous with "viewable one patent at a time."
That would explain the absence of any specification field. Still, I'm left
wondering about the claims to US bibliographic data back to 1968.

Regards,
Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan <aengel@intlscience.com>
To: piug <piug-l@derwent.tecc.co.uk>
Date: Thursday, February 18, 1999 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: Espacenet

>Keep in mind that "accessible" is not synonymous with "searchable".
>Making the full text searchable is not trivial even though off-the-shelf
>
>software is available.
>
>--
>Alan Engel
>ISTA, Inc.
>ConvertedKokai(tm) machine translations of Japanese patents
>http://www.intlscience.com