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USPTO Enters the Digital Era

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  • “Officials at the Commerce Department’s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently began publishing patent examiners’ decisions on the Web for all prospective inventors to see, as part of a new system called Public Patent Application Information Retrieval, or PAIR.” [Link]
  • See my related posting from August 2 here.

    • Search MIT Theses

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    “Welcome to the digital library of MIT Theses, a collection of selected MIT master’s and doctoral theses available online. Please note that this is NOT a complete collection of MIT theses. It includes only theses that were scanned by Document Services in the past few years, for printing or electronic delivery to requesters. The range… Continue Reading

    Will Your “Personal Health Record” Be Online Within 10 Years?

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    Medical Records May Go Online – “Health industry, tech firms, government agencies might collaborate to build a secure database of patient records.” [link via D. Cavallini] Related references and resources are as follows: Office of the National Health Information Technology Coordinator (ONCHIT), created by Executive Order 13335, signed April 27, 2004. Your Medical History on… Continue Reading

    Government Secrecy and National Security

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    From the Washington Post (reg. req’d), Secret Court Poses Challenges – Non-Government Litigants Lack Access, Ways to Influence Cases and Too Much Secrecy, as well as this report, Secrecy and National Security by Bruce Berkowitz, Hoover Digest, Summer 2004. [links via Secrecy News] Related references: Statement of Ms. Carol A. Haave (Deputy Undersecretary of Defense)… Continue Reading