Richard Speed, The Register; Face-PALM: US Patent and Trademark Office database down for 5 days and counting
"The Patent Application Locating and Monitoring (PALM) database forms
the backbone of a distressingly large number of US Patent and Trademark
Office (USPTO) systems and, during some maintenance at 04:30 ET on 15
August, "experienced an issue".
More than five days on, PALM is still down. As such,
this is more akin to the Titanic experiencing an iceberg "issue" rather
than a straightforward turn it off and on again.
Systems impacted include the USPTO's Electronic
Filing System (EFS), the Public and Private Patent Application Retrieval
(PAIR) systems and the Electronic Patent Assignment (ePAS) among
others.
36 hours after the outage began, the USPTO kicked off
its contingency systems so users could at least still file patents (in
theory), if not access saved submissions. Users were not convinced."
Issues and developments related to Intellectual Property (e.g. Copyright, Fair Use, Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets) and Open Movements (e.g. Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources (OER)), examined in the "Intellectual Property and Open Movements" and "Ethics of Data, Information, and Emerging Technologies" graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. -- Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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