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by law • 14 years ago

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mtgx• 14 years ago

I thought they said we should give it a rest?

law• 14 years ago

The USPTO has been taking some amazing technological steps in the last few years. This is the most recent. Earlier this year they, for the first time ever, released a search function for the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (which is a >2000-page tome that doesn't exactly read like a John Grisham novel). Several years ago, they gave Google their entire database of patents, patent applications, and trademarks. Given that they're a government agency, this progress is absolutely astonishing.

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