Return of the Prodigal Son...PatentMojo.com comes home
Posted by Stephen M. Nipper at February 9, 2006 05:36 PM
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away....
Rethink(IP) owned a website called PatentMojo. PatentMojo was beautiful. It was built in Ruby and allowed you to set up RSS feeds of USPTO patent searches. And then it died...causing much gnashing of teeth. Not only did the site die, but we didn't even have access to the domain name to fix it. Argh. Leave it to three IP attorneys to not get the appropriate copyright assignments in place and copies of the source code. Lesson learned. ;)
Well...I'm pleased to announce that it's back. Sort of. We were able to obtain the domain name, but the code is gone gone gone.
So...if you know of anyone (programmer) who would be interested in helping us get our patent search to RSS site back up and going...please let us know. We'd love to talk with them.
J. Matthew Buchanan 
Stephen M. Nipper 
Douglas Sorocco 
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The Rethink(ip)ers need the help of a Ruby programmer to get their patent search to RSS site back up and going. (tags: ruby, patents, rss law2.0)...
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The Rethink(ip)rs need the help of a Ruby programmer to get their patent search to RSS site back up and going. (tags: ruby, patents, rss, law2.0)...
Trackbacked from PatentMojo needs rescuing on Kevin, Esq..
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Josh Says:
February 10, 2006 08:58 AM
How did it work? Was it basically just posting a list or table of search results on a weekly basis set according to user-defined criteria?
I've been toying with a narrower version of the concept for my own site. I regularly post a list of inventions granted to Rhode Island companies and inventors. Currently, I create the posts by hand, but I eventually want to automate the process and put it in a cron job.
I actually was going to write the code in PHP and create a wordpress plugin for it. Finding time is tough though. Here in the northeast, We're scheduled to get walloped by a blizzard this weekend. Maybe that's a good time to renew this project.
Daniel Says:
February 23, 2006 08:23 PM
Ouch. That's got to hurt.
I remember how cool it was. I shed a tear for the loss of your MoJo.