Incorrect info in Gauss?

[Ole Tange]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Carsten Svaneborg wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 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.

This is news to me and I find it problematic that
http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView/EP772327 does not give me a warning that
this info may not be the actual granted patent. And if I really want the
authoritative text I should read the scanned PDFs. I (and politicians)
could easily have made a fool of myself by assuming Gauss was
authoritative.

I agree that it is even worse that Espacenet is equally guilty, but we
should be more honest than Espacenet.

To rectify this I think we should put a warning at the start of each
patent, so people will not use Gauss as authoritative source for patent
texts, but as informative only.

It could be as simple as:

  Warning: The information here is not authoritative. <a 
  href="scanned PDF">See the authoritative text.</a>

or other text to that effect. It is not enough to put it on the frontpage
of Gauss as people will find patents through Google.


/Ole
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