patent issuance/publication RSS feeds
Posted by Douglas Sorocco, September 12, 2004 at 2:16 am
I'm back! Rested, check. Re-energized, check. Ready for the stacks in my office, no-no-no!
To kick things off -- GrepLaw has a useful post on specific RSS feeds (from Varchars, previously blogged by PHOSITA) that aggregate and publish the issuance of patents to specific companies, namely:
- Apple Computer Patents,
- Apple Computer Applications,
- Google Patents,
- Google Applications,
- Microsoft Patents,
- Microsoft Applications,
- Yahoo patents, and
- Yahoo applications.
RSS feeds are beginning to be more and more useful to keep track of patent information for both practitioners and clients. While Varchars tool is quite useful, it is somewhat difficult for a non-computer techie to implement. Therefore, the PTO needs to be encouraged to develop RSS tools to supplement its already useful website to bring keyword searching, company tracking and classification tracking (for example) into the RSS world. It would be a fantastic tool and would make those of us who used to read the paper Gazettes envious!