Incorrect info in Gauss?

[Carsten Svaneborg]

On Tuesday 05 July 2005 22:20, Ole Tange wrote:
> In http://www.ipjur.com/03.php3 it says that the info on Gauss is
> incomplete.  Is that correct? If so: can we correct it?

Here is the comment I wrote, it's slightly less than polite, but his
whining pissed me off.  8^(


The claims you get on http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView/EP772327
are exactly the claims you get if you goto
http://v3.espacenet.com/textclam?&DB=EPODOC&IDX=EP0772327

I find it intellectually dishonest to claim that Gauss should be are factually 
misrepresenting the patent claims, surely Espacenet is equally guilty of that 
offense.

So I suggest that you direct your complaint towards Espacenet, and ask them to 
publish the B1 claims as soon as a patent is granted.

At the same time I suggest that you ask espacenet to clearly designate on the 
page if they are displaying an A1/A2/B1 document.

If you have a constructive suggestion of how to obtain text versions of the 
claims of all the granted patents in the Gauss database (~43000), then I 
would be happy to supply this information. (ascii is necessary for search, 
display, and filtering)

However, since most are documents are only available as scanned PDFs from the 
paper documents, this is not feasable.

Again try to suggest solutions to this problem, rather than bitching about us 
not having solved it.

Currently, you can follow the bibliographic link in the bottom of a page to 
espacenet, and click on the B1 PDF file there. This is the best solution
given Espacenets current limitations.

-- 
  Mvh. Carsten