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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has announced an ambitious plan to make all of its patent and trademark information available on the Internet.
Bruce A. Lehman, commissioner of patents and trademarks, made the announcement during a speech to the American Bar Association June 25 in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Beginning in August, trademark text libraries are scheduled to be available on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Web site www.uspto.gov with trademark images and patent text information going online in November. Patent images will begin appearing in March 1999. By that time, full text of the 2 million patents dating back to 1976, along with trademarks from the 1800s onward, will be available at the site.
The Washington Post reported June 29 that the USPTO eventually seeks to put online every patent and trademark ever issued, creating one of the largest databases on the Web.
Posted July 6, 1998.
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