Re: Knowledge Base for Patent Searching

Peter H. Tracy (pht@micropat.com)
Mon, 20 Nov 95 14:31 GMT

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These ideas about manuals for the net are another great way to use this
incredible resource. It also helps to get management to participate faster
(better connections, better resources etc). I suggest the companies with
extensive manuals (like Derwent, Dialog) consider Adobe PDF for manuals they
don't have in electronic format. It seems Adobe is becoming a popular
format. The Japanese and others have chosen it for future patent projects.
Readers are available for MAC, PC, and Unix.
peter tracy
>This exchange is fascinating! Sandra and Edlyn, the idea of manuals
>and search support materials on the Net would mean that there
>would be less need for paper copies of the manuals
> (which I have a difficult time updating with the
>new materials) and they could be regularly updated by the producer/vendor
>on a Web page.
>Producers and vendors, just imagine how much your publishing and paper
>costs would be reduced. Plus, there would be more informed use of
>the special features of the various systems if one didn't have to hunt
>in a hard copy manual that particular indexing or code.
>One nice feature of the new USPTO Biblio searching on the net is a
>link to the main US Class of a particular patent. Of course, the PTO's
>rendition has a long way to go, and they are clearly overwhelmed by
>the response.
> It is clear to me that patent searching is going through a revolutionFrom:

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