Re: Nims & Lo patents

[P3D George Gioumousis <georggms@xxxxxxxxxx>]

P3D Bob Wier wrote
> 
> George G. said...
> 
> >3,895,867
> >3,960,563
> >4,086,585
> 
> For anyone who wants to look at them on-line (but not complete in some
> cases), point your browser to:
> 
> http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/details?patent_number=3895867
> 
> and fill in the desired number in the last field.
> 
> The cross - references are interesting also - one goes back to 1939.
> 
> 
I tried the first one; pages and pages of pretty pictures and turgid
prose were missing in the IBM WEB version. However, it is marvelous.
I spent a very pleasant afternoon a few months ago on it.

In 1990 or 1991, when I did my first patent search, I didn't have
the web. I did have one of the Fed's central patent libraries in
Sunnyvale, CA, which is not too far from where I live. The 
microfilm viewers worked quite well. I started before lunch and
got out in time for a late dinner, hungry, but happy.

The only other time was when I worked at Shell. We had lots of help to
do patent searches for the chemists. Hardly sporting.
-- 
George


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