# Does this patent link decay ? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 28, 2003, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-patent-link-decay/198159 "2003-08-28T09:51:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-patent-link-decay/198159/1 "2003-08-28T09:51:25Z")
Just testing the stability of patent database links here. [System and method for producing synthetic diamond](http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=6,582,513.WKU.&OS=PN/6,582,513&RS=PN/6,582,513) (search by number) [System and method for producing synthetic diamond](http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=Linares.INZZ.&OS=IN/Linares&RS=IN/Linares) (search by name) ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-patent-link-decay/198159/2 "2003-08-28T12:09:38Z")
Depends on its half-life. Anyone know when **Squink** ’s links will blink ? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-patent-link-decay/198159/3 "2003-08-28T23:33:10Z")
Still working. I tried one to the Fox “Fair and Balanced” trademark entry last week, and it decayed after a day or so. I’m not sure this is the same deal though. The link may be regenerating the search each time it’s clicked. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-patent-link-decay/198159/4 "2003-08-31T20:30:39Z")
Still going… ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-patent-link-decay/198159/5 "2003-09-06T15:00:02Z")
Still good, and that’s good enough for me. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-patent-link-decay/198159/6 "2005-01-18T21:24:56Z")
Still works. -Bumped because the multi-result trademark search links in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=295928) decayed in under two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-patent-link-decay/198159/7 "2005-01-18T23:04:08Z")
Links to trademark searches disappear probably even faster than you think. I haven’t used the patent search engine. Evidently it allows a link to remain for quite some time. ---
**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-patent-link-decay/198159/8 "2005-01-21T21:56:45Z")
There is something horribly wrong with this thread. When I’m in the forum list and cursor over it, it’s the only thread that doesn’t have a pop-up Help bubble. Is it haunted ? I know I’m not sticking around to find out! ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-patent-link-decay/198159/9 "2005-01-22T04:22:18Z")
> [@the first supraliminal](#): > > Is it haunted ? No, it is however old and decrepit. I think that the board software only sets up those damnable little yellow annoyance-boxes once, when a thread is _created_. The old version of vBulletin didn’t generate them, and the new software doesn’t do it for already existent threads.