PATNEWS: One years worth of patent abstracts now available

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 08:41:09 -0500
> From: srctran () world std com (Gregory Aharonian)
> To: patents () world std com
> Subject: PATNEWS: One years worth of patent abstracts now available
>
> !19950327  One years of patent abstracts now available
>
>
>    A few months ago, I announced an effort to solicit $10,000 to put up all
> of the patent abstracts since 1975 onto the Internet for simple retrieval.
> While the response was underwhelming to say the least, a few donations and
> promises did come in, enough for me to charge most of the equipment and some
> of the data I need to my credit cards, to get the project off the ground.
>
>    Well, a four gigabyte disk drive is now mounted down at UNC where my Web
> pages are, and I have made available one year's worth of patent abstract text
> data (abstracts for patents from 4794652 to 4890334, those for the year 1989).
> The abstracts are freely retreivable by patent number (sorry no searching yet,
> that needs the big donations).  To try out the abstract retreival service,
> connect to my Web pages, at:
>
>               http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html
>
> with the HTML script for the abstract retreival being on the home page.  Just
> enter the patent number and press the "Submit Query" button.
>
>    Here is a sample of a retreivable abstract:
>
>
>
> 4,812,345
>  Inventor(s)     Imai, Shozaburo; Isobe, Michihisa; Yokoo
>  State/Country   JPX
>  Assignee        Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
>  Title           Optical disk substrate
>
> There is disclosed herein an optical disk substrate
> comprising a copolymer produced by polymerizing 50 to 65%
> by weight of methyl methacrylate (a) units, 20 to 35% by
> weight of tricyclo[5.2.1.0.sup.2.6 ]deca-8-yl methacrylate
> (b) units, 5 to 25% by weight of cyclohexyl methacrylate
> (c) units and 1 to 5% by weight of acrylic ester (d) units.
>
> Issued: 1989 03 14     Filed: 1988 02 11
>
>
>
>
>    I would like to thank those who have contributed so far, and will be
> preparing an issue of my Patent News Service kudo-ing these contributors.
> The rest of the abstracts?  I am still hoping that the many patent law firms
> and corporations receiving my News Service and using the Web site will come
> forth with additional $500 donations.
>
>    Each additional $500 donation will result in the addition of one more
> year's worth of patent abstracts, with 20 years still left.  So if you like
> what you see, see what you and/or your corporation can do.  Anyone you can
> lobby (like the AIPLA and SPA), please do, if you like what I am doing.
>
>    Alternatively (joining the rampant commercialization of the Internet),
> for the full $10,000 a sponsor can get advertising space on the bottom of
> each outgoing abstract.  With thousands of people using the Web site each
> week (for just titles, even more for abstracts), this results in tons of
> publicity and marketing exposure.
>
>    Any $500 donation over $10,000 will be used for making the exemplary
> claims available, and a second $10,000 contribution gets its sponsor
> advertising space on the bottom of each outgoing claim.
>
>     Sorry to have to nickel and dime everyone, but all I have encountered
> from the various powers that be (that should be doing this) is polite yawns.
> Keep your fingers crossed.
>
> Greg Aharonian
> Internet Patent News Service
> (for subscription info, send 'help' to   patents () world std com )
> (for WWW patent searching, try  http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html )