FYI,
Tom tmckendree@msmail3.hac.com
Searchable patent resources on the internet
gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/7waissrc%3A/internet/indexsearches /inetsearches/wais-sources/patent
http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html
http://town.hall.org/patent/patent.html