PTO teams with Google on database

June 3, 2010 at 7:34 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

by Sara M. Langston with the blog faculty

Source: Government Executive

The Patent and Trademark Office announced Wednesday it has reached a two-year “no-cost” agreement with Google to make patent and trademark data electronically available for free to the public in bulk form.

Saying it lacks the technical capacity to offer such a service, PTO said the two-year agreement with Google is a temporary solution while the agency seeks a contractor to build a database that would allow the public to access such information in electronic machine-readable bulk form…more