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The December quarterly report of the E-Government American Customer Satisfaction Index (E-Gov ACSI), an independent survey that measures customer satisfaction with Federal government websites, shows that overall customer satisfaction with government websites has risen from 72.1 a year ago to … Continue reading →

U.S. Patents and Published ApplicationsWeek of December 12, 2005Patents Issued = 2,873*Published Applications = 4,914* Patents PGPubs TotalQ1 40,563 71,889 112,452Q2 41,926 72,776 114,702Q3 41,693 72,298 113,991Q4 28,076 61,796 89,872 (to Dec. 15)Year 152,258 278,759 431,017 There has been a … Continue reading →

Less than 18 months after opening, the new USPTO Public Search Facility (PSF) and Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC) are being reconfigured in order to accomodate two new USPTO training initiatives scheduled to start in early 2006. According to … Continue reading →

The European Patent Office announced that in the first half of 2005 the number of unique users accessing esp@cenet per week reached 65,000; more than 11 million PDF page downloads per week was also recorded during the same time period.Recent … Continue reading →

A team of researchers at the University of Michigan’s School of Information are working with IBM scientists to develop new tools for searching and analyzing patent data. The NSF-funded project will use natural language search technology developed at the IBM … Continue reading →

Full document downloading and printing is now available in espacenet. However, users must first type in a 5-8 digit alphanumeric code in order to begin the download. These alphanumeric codes are intended to thwart spiders and other software that download … Continue reading →

The USPTO has published an executive summary of a new project that aims to create approximately 1,300 “search templates” for each of the ~600 classified areas of science and technology found in the Manual of Classification. According to the notice … Continue reading →