[okfn-discuss] Proposal for OpenThesis Project

[Ed Summers]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> 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