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To: sandeep who wrote (55783)1/9/2001 1:22:54 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
I hear what you're saying, but it doesn't work that way in the real world, at least not yet. My understanding is that it has to do with 1) the way patents are categorized; 2) the way images are categorized; 3) the speed of the computers in displaying images. If you search using words, that's very fast. But words are vague. My husband's been in the same art unit for 12 1/2 years, in a subset of environmental engineering, which is a cross category between mechanical and chemical engineering, so he knows which boxes to look in and he searches by looking at the drawings of the devices. There's no way to categorize drawings.

I think some art units don't have a problem searching by words, e.g., biotech, maybe computer software, other things that don't have physical structures.
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