On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > Patents are actually the easiest place to start with. The info is by > definition Open. We have a program which downloads all the EPO patents for > chemistry and indexes them. We think it's miles ahead of any other > technology. It's not 100%. So we can create an open patents database. (No, > I'm not proposing TWO OKF projects in the same day - I believe that if you > propose something you have to be part of the heavy lifting and I'll do that > for theses)
I'm not sure if it's relevant but Google and the US Patent Office recently (well last month) announced the availability of bulk downloads for patent and trademark data [1,2]. //Ed [1] http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2010/10_22.jsp [2] http://www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto.html _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
