[PIUG List] Should PTO add patent status to patent database?

I have two suggestions which I have to beleive are trivial to
implement:

    1) The patent full text database available from the PTO
    should indicate whether the patent is still active, i.e.,
    the assignee has paid the latest maintenance fee.

    2) For any U.S. patent application that has issued as a
    patent, the returned text data for the patent application
    should have a hyperlink for the corresponding issued patent.

I am sure others have the pet peeves, and maybe PIUG should make
a list and formally present it to the Patent Office. The PTO
search engines have always been retarded, decades behind real
search technology. But some of these fixes don't even require
new search engines, just a bit of ingenuity.

Greg Aharonian


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Received on Fri Aug 22 2008 - 19:57:26