I'm working on a trademark search site. It's still very much in Alpha state, but it has the trademark databases of the US, Canada, Germany, Austria, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. The UK and some other databases are coming soon.
No wonder the data is terabytes, even for inventing small things, people carve out tens of pages of text of obscure legal language. I wonder what the common man can use that for if its not understandable by him. Good move, but hardly of any use. Check http://patentabsurdity.com/
how do I see these files? the size after unpacking the text is so huge, I can't even see the XMLs. Of course, I am doing this from home. I guess this isn't aimed at Joes at home.
Also, now you have the actual/"master" data, is there any chance of replacing all the broken patent images on the Google Patents site? As anyone who has used Google Patents to view patent images will know, some drawings/diagrams for many patents are broken. Presumably that was an unintended side-effect of Google's OCR process, but it's been like that for years now.
How long until Google launches fully functional searches of trademark records?
ReplyDelete10 Terabytes? Oh my god thats kinda crazy I love it though, thanks Google!
ReplyDeleteI'm working on a trademark search site. It's still very much in Alpha state, but it has the trademark databases of the US, Canada, Germany, Austria, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. The UK and some other databases are coming soon.
ReplyDeleteThe site is trade.mar.cx. Clever domain, eh?
Crazy cool - thanks! Any plans for adding a feed for these files or some other way to auto-download when new ones become available?
ReplyDeleteI actually work for the company who converts the patents into digital format for the PTO
ReplyDeleteNo wonder the data is terabytes, even for inventing small things, people carve out tens of pages of text of obscure legal language. I wonder what the common man can use that for if its not understandable by him.
ReplyDeleteGood move, but hardly of any use. Check http://patentabsurdity.com/
As a patent agent, searchable access and bulk downloads of patent file wrapper data would be very helpful.
ReplyDeletehow do I see these files?
ReplyDeletethe size after unpacking the text is so huge, I can't even see the XMLs. Of course, I am doing this from home. I guess this isn't aimed at Joes at home.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing, this gives some food for thought.
ReplyDeleteThis is very good news. I have a couple of suggestions though...
ReplyDeleteSplit the huge download pages (at for example http://www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto-patents-grants.html) into one for each year. Loading that huge page maxes out the CPU for quite a while even on a reasonably modern machine.
Also, now you have the actual/"master" data, is there any chance of replacing all the broken patent images on the Google Patents site? As anyone who has used Google Patents to view patent images will know, some drawings/diagrams for many patents are broken. Presumably that was an unintended side-effect of Google's OCR process, but it's been like that for years now.