USPTO considering opening access to public patent/trademark data?

According to the notice:

Due to overwhelming interest from the patent and trademark community, the USPTO has scheduled a second public meeting to be held Monday, October 19th from 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Pacific time at the San Francisco Public Library located at 100 Larkin Street (at Grove), San Francisco, CA 94102-4733 in the Latino/Hispanic Community Room B. As with the first public meeting, the purpose is to address questions about the Request for Information (RFI). The full details of the Data Dissemination RFI, along with registration information and information from the first public meeting, are available on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site

Those parties that are interested in attending must send, no later than Thursday, October 15, 2009, 2:00 p.m. Eastern time, the attendee’s name, company, company address, and e-mail address topublicdatadissemination@uspto.gov. Registration will be limited to the first 50 registrants.

via:  USPTO to hold public meeting on Data Dissemination RFI Oct 19 at SF Public Library.

I’d die for an API…

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One Response to USPTO considering opening access to public patent/trademark data?
  1. Feigin, Patent & Trademark Attorney
    October 15, 2009 | 8:10 am

    There is so much you could do with the data… as part of a new inventor service, it would help us greatly to be able to import data as opposed to having it uploaded by the user, where possible…