Luis, Thanks again for all your thoughtful feedback. Here are some followup comments. > I have no idea about Topaz in particular, but I'd question why HA is a > project requirement at this point in time. The costs far outweigh the > benefits for a site that will inevitably be small at first. I can't > suggest reading... Fair point. Another consideration is the ability for various participants such as data center staff to understand the solution well enough to support it. It is hard to support something when you're not really up to speed on it, and we need to learn more at this point. > * what is the 'timeline' bar in p. 1 of the screen design pdf? Is that > how far along in the process the given patent is? This represents the amount of remaining time left for community input on this patent application. Sounds like that wasn't crystal clear in the design, so maybe we need to improve that graphic or the wording. > * I might suggest calling 'tags' 'labels' instead (as google often > does); tags are such a technorati term, and I sense this is reaching > out to a broader audience. I agree that "tags" is overloaded, but "labels" also seems cryptic. Maybe we can use some English here. Open to suggestions. We actually have several different uses for tag-style input, so this is a good one to get right. E.g. "List keywords for Application" and "List keywords for Prior Art", or something similar. > An obvious 'mashup' might be with Google's patent search and/or the > PTO's own search; a greasemonkey script of some sort that displays > very basic peer2patent information (the sparklines, maybe?) when > browsing 3rd-party patent search engines would be great to have. Could > be a very simple API- provide patent number, get back fragment of XML > with links + sparklines images. Can you clarify how this mashup would work? What data is being passed around? Google has issued patents and does not have patent applications (so far), so they will not have one of our apps displayed in their world. On the other hand, we will have references to issued patents, which are on google and other web site. What I thought might make sense was a way to mark an issued patent inside a 3rd party app like a bookmark, and then import it for use as prior art, giving credit back to the 3rd party source. Thanks Eric Hestenes Technical Lead NYLS Community Patent Review project eric.hestenes at communitypatent.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/p2patent-developer/attachments/20070130/c3151b2b/attachment.htm
