Got restarted on CSS today

I know, I know, most of the action isn't even Depatenting-related; I'm still working on infrastructure.

FreePatentsOnline: literature search tools

FreePatentsOnline has added journals, many with full text, to its search tool.

Article One Partners

Article One Partners has the crowdsourcing aspect already in place. I don't see an open community, which is more what I hope to do (provide a place for the hacker community to see and make news about patents), but they're definitely competition. (No reason I couldn't index them, of course.)

Progress

I've been spending a lot of time with WWW::Publisher and HTML::Declarative. The new target is (was) June 15, but I don't see that actually happening at that point, because three of my action points are still Macro/boilerplate facility, DB management code, and Write/debug site.

Granted, my initial specification of the site is actually written. But when that hits viable code status, it isn't going to work. I'm down to two weeks, during which time I'll be flying to Budapest for my niece's wedding. So maybe I'll have to wait for my next Google coupon.

That said - the community is really buzzing with patent furor lately, thanks to Lodsys and their in-app upgrade patent. Wow. This is going to be well-timed if I can just get it out the door.

Linkdump

• A Groklaw post on patents
• HNN thread: court rules Linux kernel infriges

Polyphasic sleep

Just in case you were wondering, starting polyphasic sleep in order to catch up with something doesn't work.

Marketing

I have a $100 coupon from AdWords good until the end of the month - so that, my friends, is the date I want to have something live. It's ... looking less probable. Sigh. I was sick for four days during a busy week, and I've been trying polyphasic sleep in an attempt to catch up since then.

I've been haphazardly working on database definition code in the framework. It might honestly be less stupid to just develop the damned site, but the whole point is the framework, so ...

Anyway, once I have something operational, I should find out who's doing patent stuff online and thus might be interested in this. To that end, I've found one: http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/ - so once things are that far, I'll drop him a line. This post is just so I don't forget.

Here's another site: http://news.swpat.org/2010/03/transcript-tridgell-patents/ - that's actually a pretty good transcript of a talk about patent work, indicating that non-infringement is often what you really want to go for. A depatenting community should probably support workarounds as the speaker suggests at the end of the talk.

I should try to find out who's who in the field.