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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BaseballGames, post: 9422144, member: 7826&quot;]The maddening thing in trying to research this is what&#039;s shown as the patent number itself.&nbsp; Over the years, we&#039;ve gotten pretty nimble at searching the US Patent Office database for patents related to our our own tiny backwater of antique collecting, but those are all standard patents -- six or seven numerals, no letters or punctuation. </p><p><br /></p><p>What we&#039;re seeing as &quot;1.5-222&quot; (?) is nothing at all like any part of a standard patent number.&nbsp; Maybe it&#039;s part of a design patent or utility patent, which use different systems.&nbsp; But looking in on the USPTO website for the first time in many months, we see they&#039;ve abandoned their old easy-to-use database for an entirely new system, and at first blush we&#039;re not even sure if we&#039;re accessing all databases (standard, design, utility, &amp;c&#039;) at once or, if we&#039;re not, how to get into those alternate databases...&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie48" alt=":grumpy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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