This should come in handy for all you "free energy" researchers out there, as well as others. Teo1000
Newsgroups: wpi.announce,wpi.library Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 11:14:23 -0500 (EST) From: xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Full Images of Patents via USPTO The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has added links from its U.S. Patent Full Text Database: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.htm to the full image of every page of every patent in the database back to January 1, 1976. Full images are stored in the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) and are not directly viewable with most Web browsers. A TIFF viewer plug-in or another application to which your browser can send TIFF images for display is needed. USPTO suggests that users download and install the free browser plug-in, "AlternaTIFF," available from Medical Informatics Engineering http://www.mieweb.com/alternatiff/ which works with Navigator/Communicator 3.0+, Internet Explorer 3.0+, and Opera 3.51+. The browsers on the public access catalog computers on the main floor of the library have been configured to use the TIFF viewer for display and printing of patent images. There is a link to the U.S. Patent Full Text and Image Database from the Gordon Library home page: http://www.wpi.edu/+library Just select Reference Resources and then Patent Resources. -------------------------------- Don Richardson Reference/Systems Librarian Worcester Polytechnic Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------- Neil L. Norum Director, Media & Community Relations Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) 100 Institute Road Worcester, MA 01609
