[pbhjpbhj]

Having worked doing independent full-stack web design I'd expect an individual could, from scratch, set up a working system with load balancing and failover in perhaps 2-3 weeks ... an experience team should surely be able to do that in their sleep inside a week?

What would be others expectation for such a service? USPTO do have a web team, yes? That site has been the same for over a decade AFAIR, what have they been doing?

[otoburb]

The issue here is that even if you could do it, the question when working in a large bureaucracy is whether you're given the latitude to do so when teams are silo'd and responsibilities are split along very sharp fault lines.

So, even though you could setup a working system top to bottom from scratch, depending on which team you're attached to you'd have to design, explain/argue and work with other teams and their overbearing workloads and attendant baggage.

An experienced team with full ownership of load balancers, firewalls, hosts, security and applications could conceivably do this in their sleep inside of a week -- but few large organizations split their responsibilities in this manner.

I don't know anything about USPTO and am only making sweeping generalizations, but my experience with government and large network operators seems to generalize well (so far).

This is why I hope that other 3rd parties can somehow export USPTO data and make them available somehow. Not sure if this is a potential target for the Archive Team[1] or archive.org, although the missions aren't cleanly aligned to this particular need.

[1] http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page