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    A few months ago, the Advisory Commission on Patent Law Reform presented
its final report to the Secretary of Commerce.  The report outlines proposed
changes to patent law, such as aligning with global practices, and other
topics.

    The Patent Office is making a machine readable version of the report
available, but they are charging a fee of $60.  I'd be willing to handle
acquiring and posting the machine readable version onto the Internet.  I
can post it and place it at some anonymous-ftp sites.

    However, my interest is not at the $60 level.  Thus if some of the
patent followers on the Internet would be willing to chip in five or ten
bucks along with me, I'd do the rest.

    Also, if this pool effort works, there are a few CDROMs now available
from the patent office for a few hundred bucks each, with tons of patent
information on them, which I also would be willing to help acquire and post
to the net.

    If anyone is interested, in helping, please email to me.

Thanks.

Greg Aharonian
Source Translation & Optimization

[mod - great idea.. I'll contribute an FTP site in australia and
germany for the report and will contribute $20US if it is needed, (athough I
am unsure of how to transfer is to  you  from Australia without
incurring substantial bank charges...).If anyone from gnu is listening,
perhaps their ftp site at mit would be ideal.
Also, I'm a bit concerned about
copyright problems with making copies and any copyright they may be
claiming.	Perhaps some approach needs to
be made to the USPTO to seek their permission...
Come to think of it, maybe a general approach should be made to come
to some arrangement with the USPTO to make their info available to the
internet generally.. I shall prepare a draft general approach, by christmas,
for discussion on the net...
I think the other CD-roms are also a great idea, but the storage
requirements are likely to be substantial (?)
]