[SCCC] patent search

[Steve Katz]

I use the USPTO search engine all the time, it's not bad.

You can use an inventor's (author's) name, a date range, or keywords, or
all three.  I usually find stuff pretty quickly unless the patent simply
didn't use any of the obvious keywords I thought it should have in the
title.   That can make it take a lot longer!

73

Steve WB2WIK



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On Behalf Of Art K6XT
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:25 AM
To: Grand Mesa Contesters; SCCC; K6NA Rattman, Glenn & Jane; N6ND, N6ND
Craig; K7NV-Andress Kurt & Sharon
Subject: [SCCC] patent search

Does anyone know anyone who knows how to do a specific patent search for

a patent that might have been issued in the early 1900's for prop pitch 
gearboxes? Electric-powered ones of the sort we use on antennas that 
were built 70/80 years ago.

For someone who's never been there before the USPTO web might just as 
well be written in Esperanto. The good news is, they do offer extensive 
free training classes on how to use the databases, yes plural, to find 
stuff. In Virginia.
-- 
73 Art
Allison, Colorado
Indecision is the key to Flexibility!
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