PAIR, now with an additional step

January 2, 2008 on 7:29 pm | In Patent Searching, USPTO |

Today, I noticed this gem when I went to access Public PAIR:
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If it means that PAIR and TDR are less likely to be offline (which I’ve seen a number of times in the past month)…GREAT.

If it means that practitioners will have yet another impediment to easy access to government data…NOT GOOD.

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4 Comments

  1. I noticed this change yesterday and because I have noticed a lot of down time on Public Pair, I was not terribly pleased. The step adds time to my investigations. Why not one word?

    Espacenet has this sort of Turing test step, but only when one goes to download a pdf of a patent application or patent.

    Comment by SusanTees — January 3, 2008 #

  2. By the way…today I went to use it and it didn’t work. I bet I typed in the “two words” 20 times and each time it wouldn’t let me in. Joy…they’ve locked me out of PAIR. @#()$*@#)$@#*$)@(#*

    Using FireFox on Vista, for what it is worth…

    Comment by Stephen M. Nipper — January 3, 2008 #

  3. It worked fine for me. I am glad to see they are making efforts to ensure the site stays up.

    Comment by MalibuTigger — January 7, 2008 #

  4. I wonder how much time it will take before one comes with a solution to decipher text in a graphic box for automation purposes… I thing that Google is close to that in its latest published patent application WO/2008/003095… To me, its a poor attempt of preventing web robots from downloading data to the detriment of honest people.

    Comment by Luc Morin — January 10, 2008 #

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