European Patent Register down

[Carsten Svaneborg]

On Monday 03 July 2006 16:44, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
>  Online European Patent Register and Online Public File Inspection

Currently, the dossiers is not used, but the event log from 
register.epoline.org is what used to determine the current patentstate.

(In the html files with patent information, the register.epoline data is
stored together with espacenet abstract, claims and descriptions)

Without that no way to know what the state of a patent is, when
patents are updated or added.

> Is there a plan to mirror the ofi eopline data in gauss? So that for
> example you can spy what is happening on a particular patent (by RSS or
> Email)?

This would be a VERY nice feature.

If the wiki and the DB was tighter integrated, then it would be possible
to wiki-subscribe to changes of a DB generated page, and hence be
notified e.g. when a particular application is granted or the appeal state 
changes. Note this would also require more frequent polling of the state 
of patents in opposition.

(that is if we know about state changes in the future...)

-- 
  Mvh. Carsten