I’m a member of piug (Patent Information Users Group) and one day someone asked about cpcs. Not the new classification system (Cooperative Patent Classification) but the obsolete one (Canadian Patent Classification) phased out in 1989. Someone from the Canadian Patent Office replied with a pdf of the classifications! It was pointed out that it is … Continue reading “Canadian cpcs”
Month: December 2020
Developer Candy: Swagger UI for the patentsview api
Russ Allen, developer and patent enthusiast, created a Swagger UI json object and explains its usefulness. Pretend for a moment that you are a developer working on something cool that needs to call a web service. If you are lucky, the web service provider will have made a Swagger UI web page available for you. … Continue reading “Developer Candy: Swagger UI for the patentsview api”
Trademark fun – Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots
Not to condone violence, but there’s what I came across at a flea market today. I’m guessing the seller did not know of the patent or associated trademark but I did. Patent 3,235,259 issued February 15, 1966 Trademark 800,265 registered December 14, 1965