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-------- Original Message -------- Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 16:04:55 +0100 (CET) From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de To: epo@mlist.austria.eu.net CC: patents@aful.org, intprop-l@topica.com, horns@ipjur.com
Hi,
At
one can supposedly inspect the current state of an EPO patent.
Unfortunately I was, after a few attempts, not able to do this with any patent, and at
http://www.epoline.org/epoline/pfifaq.html
I find an FAQ which teaches me that I have to use the Microsoft operating system platform with specific browsers that use specific versions of the Java Virtual Machine. I of course use none of these but browsers like Konqueror, Opera and Lynx.
If the EPO's goal is to make information publicly accessible, why can't you keep things simple and adhere to publicly specified standards, such as HTML 4.0 (see www.w3c.org) ?
Meanwhile the problem about which I was complaining this morning seems to have been fixed, but the observation remains that espacenet.com could have been made more transparent and robust. Since epoline.org is still in the beta phase, perhaps some bad design decisions of espacenet.com could be avoided rather than repeated in even worse form.
Btw, is intprop-l at topica com still operating ? My postings didn't seem to arrive there and I received only one mailing from AHH this year.