just_n_examiner (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} just_n_examiner) wrote,@ 2008-04-30 23:00:00 |
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Another Place to Search
IP Australia and the Australian government have launched a new open, online database featuring almost 20 years' worth of the country's patent application records.
The Story
The Website
While it's always great to have additional sources to search, I don't see myself using it very often (except in those cases where I'm looking for a specific Australian patent document and am having problems finding it through IP Australia), because it simply takes too long to routinely perform yet another search on another database and to analyze the results of that search. In order for it to be truly useful as a searching resource to me, it would ideally be incorporated into EAST along with the EPO, JPO and Derwent documents that are already there.
Still, more is better, right? Well, I suppose so.
IP Australia and the Australian government have launched a new open, online database featuring almost 20 years' worth of the country's patent application records.
The Story
The Website
While it's always great to have additional sources to search, I don't see myself using it very often (except in those cases where I'm looking for a specific Australian patent document and am having problems finding it through IP Australia), because it simply takes too long to routinely perform yet another search on another database and to analyze the results of that search. In order for it to be truly useful as a searching resource to me, it would ideally be incorporated into EAST along with the EPO, JPO and Derwent documents that are already there.
Still, more is better, right? Well, I suppose so.
