Necessity is the mother of invention, and the USPTO’s delay in using RSS has led the guys at the Rethink(ip) Blog (Doug, Matt and me) to create RSS feeds of the USPTO’s News and Notices page.  We’ve created an Official Gazette feed, a Trademark feed, a Patent feed, a “General News” feed, and a mega feed that includes all of the above.  Details can be found here:  Rethink(ip) makes United States Patent and Trademark Office News and Notices available by RSS

Please let us know if it is useful (and any other feedback you have).