[TheForge] Patent servers?

[Andrew Vida]

The USPTO site is a good one by all means, though I wish the trademark 
area was a bit better in terms of completeness.  I used to use the 
trademark gazette at the Engineering Societies library (NYC) and could 
find anything I wanted.  The library was closed several years ago, 
unfortunately.  I worked there as a kid and it was a great resource.  I 
used to love sitting in the stacks going through volume after volume on 
various contraptions.  They had every issue of Philosophical Magazine 
(bound book) since its inception in the 15th or 16th century, and it 
wasn't even in the rare collections area, which was under lock and key. 
  Regretfully, I never went in there to see what they had, but I bet 
that they had
some really cool stuff.

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> What's this?  
> 
> You can search patents on the US Patent and Trademark office site.  A bit tedious, and you need to learn their classification system, but I dug out some interesting stuff on broomcorn threshers.  (Marshall and I are growing broomcorn on a hobby level - so far.)
> 
> Bruce