Why not just link to the U.S. Patent Office's copy?
I don't see any reason not to link U.S. patents straight to the actual U.S. patent. Once such a link is established, than any subsequent re-linking to a commercial page would be a clear-cut case of spam in my mind.
I went ahead and changed the Kaleida Labs article. I noticed you were the main contributor for that article; I also noticed that the patent you linked to is now assigned to Quark, Inc.. If that patent's critical to the article, you might consider briefly mentioning the relevance and why Quark has it.
- The patent is good documentation of what the technology that this company developed was like. It was one of several patents that Kaleida Labs received, but it was the only one that clearly was related to the company's purpose (development of an object-based operating system with dynamic binding of objects). --Metzenberg 18:52, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
As for these semi-spammy patent edits, you might briefly raise this on the talk page for Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam and see what those folks think. They may also be interested in checking out how pervasive this problem is with bth that site and others like it.
Thanks for shining a light on this one. I hate link-spammers but this probably an innocent new user and I have to remind myself to keep chanting "assume good faith, assume good faith, ..." --A. B. 15:19, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- What I would like to see is a policy for how to link to patents. It shouldn't be a way for somebody to farm for links. --Metzenberg 18:52, 10 October 2006 (UTC)