Free download: 10 terabytes of patents and trademarks

[abraham]

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/06/free-download-10-terabytes-of-patents.html

[wmf]

A lot of this was already available: http://bulk.resource.org/patent/

[SkyMarshal]

People interested in this might be interested in Peer2Patent as well. Crowd-sourced prior-art reviews actually used by the PTO to reject patent apps.

http://www.peertopatent.org/

[elblanco]

Oh, now this will make a real nice citation graph to play with.

[wooster]

This is amazing. I hope they start doing this for some of the other enormous government data sets out there (like some of the mapping and satellite imagery datasets).

[yellowbkpk → wooster]

Which ones are you interested in? Most of them are already available as bulk downloads.