IBM Opens Bin

IBM announced today that it will make available free to the public its vast bin of 2 million US patents formerly accessible only to its own engineers and attorneys: http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/ Welcome to the IBM Patent Server. With this World Wide Web server, IBM lets you access over 26 years of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) patent descriptions as well as the last ten years of images. The first entries date back to January 5, 1971. You can search, retrieve and study over two million patents. NYT has a report about it: www.nytimes.com