This article originally appeared in the July 2000 edition of Information World Review. It is reprinted here with permission.
Patterns formed by a single shot of malt Patent researchers are out to map the white space.
To go where no one s gone before. A process she herself developed was kick-started when she read a 1968 German patent. Once that happens, she says, you no longer see patents as schlock literature. For a traditional scientist one of the hardest things to learn is to look at patent literature without feeling that someone should be arrested for writing it. It doesn t have that nice clean feel of peer-reviewed chemical literature.