US Patent Office Teams With Google On Database

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 9, 2010 @11:57PM from the free-for-the-looking dept.

PatPending writes "The Patent and Trademark Office announced it has reached a two-year 'no-cost' agreement with Google to make patent and trademark data electronically available and free to the public. From the article: '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.'"

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By lacks technical capability they really mean... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-10 00:00 · Score: 5, Funny

...that technically developing their own system would infringe on too many patents.
Re:Conflict of interest by somersault · 2010-06-10 00:15 · Score: 3, Funny

Certainly could be good for Google if all of Microsoft's patents somehow end up showing up as Google patents :p

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which is totally what she said