Quality Assurance of text and image databases at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
David W. Grooms · Information Services & Use · 1988
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) applies a rigorous Quality Assurance (QA) program to its text and image databases, which comprise part of the Automated Patent System (APS). QA efforts are applied from the time data is captured, either by c