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Started by Carl Oppedahl
Thu, 03 Sep 1992 04:28
[INFO] Patents in class 424
Author: Carl Oppedahl
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 04:28
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 04:28
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The writer asks how to find the number of patents granted in the aggregate or by firm for the US patent class 424. The writer observes correctly that none of the online computer databases nor (no big surprise here since they come from the same place) none of the CD-ROM products covers time before 1970. One sure way to get the answer is to go in person to the Patent Office in Virginia and physically review the "shoe" containing copies of all patents in that class. It is in the public search room there, which is available to anybody. Less convenient but just as workable is to go to any of the dozens of patent depository libararies, which have on microfilm lists of the patent numbers of patents in each patent class, and which also have microfilm copies of the patents themselves, from which the firm name may be read.
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