Peer To Patent

The UK Patent Office has an online site for patent commentary and prior art research. This should be checked for functionality that might make sense to me.

This effort is going rather slowly; I've been busy!

Patent database

Here's a "world patent database" in Chinese: [list] [patent] Interesting cross-referencing going on there. Makes me want to scrape the whole thing. (They might notice, of course.)

Progress thus far

CSS and HTML work perfectly in the Decl context now (if somewhat primitively) and so the building blocks for Websites are in place. I can even emit PHP in the right places, and collect Javascript and CSS into centrally organized files.

What I'm working on now is the macro/template system. This is the meat of the thing, and arguably the second Really Big Part of the Decl system. (The first being its very nature as an easily parsed, concise language for the construction of complex data structures.)

The macro system will essentially be the way that Decl can impose structure on any textual language, and it's going to be the way we build abstractions of site features (like "user signon system" or "forum") and page features (like "newsbox" or "navigation menu").

In other words, the project itself has now started.

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.