google patent

[Spencer W Hunter]

Based on the new Google Patent service, I updated my design science page
at:

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~shunter/cads.html

Here are my update notes for today:

12/19/2006
Google Patent search link added to the Comprehensive Anticipatory
Design Science directory under the Socially Responsible gophers, etc.
I discovered using this service that my pantegrity idea was patented
by Tony S. Gwilliam and Russell Chu in 1987, U.S. Pat. #4,711,062; so
it would, by now, be in the public domain anyway.  It is unclear to me
whether Dennis John Newland's "Self-Guyed Structures" patent
(U.S. Pat. #7,013,608) is nullified, in part, by my 2005 posting on
Tensegrity Blocks, since it wasn't issued by the USPTO until 2006.
However, the European publication US2002002807 is dated 2002-01-10.

Spencer Hunter, Tucson, AZ.
gopher://www.u.arizona.edu:80/hGET%20/%7Eshunter

In synergeo at yahoogroups.com, Dick Fischbeck <dick_fischbeck at ...> wrote:

>Google now has a patent search option. I haven't used it yet but it
>can't be any worse than the USPTO site or freeepatentsonline.com

>I find both of those to be clunky.

> http://www.google.com/patents

>Okay. I tries Snelson and found a very accessible page:

> http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT4099339

>Joseph-D-Clinton came back with an equally easy-to-read page:

> http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5181355