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istl-1397		Science & Patent Sessions at Online World [Conference Report]			.html	text/html	1580	51	35	She summarized the strengths and weaknesses of those two and other sites as follows: {IBM Patent Server Home Page} http://www.patents.ibm.com/ibm.html Strengths Free search of titles, abstracts, and claims text for 1971- present of U.S. patents (a few gaps) Free viewing of items retrieved Free images of full patents (1974 - present) Three levels of search text with powerful and flexible advanced search text Connections to other patent resources and links to forward and backward citations Weaknesses Clumsy and unobvious advanced text search syntax Some patent front page fields not yet searchable Limited time-ranging capabilities Many holes in the data Patent images fuzzy and hard to read MicroPatent http://www.micropat.com Strengths Full-text search and display Front page image display in Patent Gazette Easy to order patents, but they are not free Weaknesses Only current information searchable Primitive search capabilities except for the Patent Gazette USPTO Patent Database http://www.uspto.gov Strengths Good search engines (two search modes) An article she wrote titled, {Patent Searching: What, Why, When, Were?} provides an overview of several sources of patent information on the Internet.	cache/istl-1397.html	txt/istl-1397.txt