[Sigia-l] Google Patents

[A.F. Cossham]

Fascinating site - utterly frustrating to see the incorrect names  of the
inventors that I presume an OCR process has misread.  I tried a search on
corset, and there are a number of mistakes in the first few results
(signatures on the drawings can be easily read):

Catharine A. Griswold  is listed as both CATHARINE A. GBISWOLD and later on
CATHAEINE A. GEISWOLD

GLABA E. "WOODWORTH is Clara E. Woodworth with a nice twirl on the W

If the names themselves are used for searching the US Patent Office files,
there must be a lot of disappointed individuals.

And yes, you can search GBISWOLD or GLABA, and you do get results - I liked
the "Composition for medicating bed quilts"!

Regards
Amanda

Amanda Cossham
Director, and Records and Archives Consultant
Lindisfarne Information Consulting Ltd
www.lindisfarneinfo.co.nz

> From: Laurie Gray <laurie.gray at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:31:27 -0500

> I haven't seen mention of this and stumbled across it this evening.
> Hours of browsing/searching fun...
> 
> http://www.google.com/patents
> 
> Laurie Gray
> Design Architect
> OneSpring LLC
>