Patent GrabberTM
5.8
for Mac OS X and Windows
(released July 2010)
This is a FREE upgrade for registered users of
Version 5.x. When you start Ver. 5.8, it should automatically open up
in its registered state. If that does not happen, enter your Version 5
username and registration code.
Downloading
– fixed
multiple issues caused by changes made at the European Patent Office
that
prevented Patent Grabber
from
being able to download EP-A, PCT and International documents. The
“family”
option of the U.S. Biblio download feature is now working again.
Searching
– added
full-text EP-A searching (but it is unfortunately limited to 30 hits at
the
present time). Fixed all the issues with the “Sortable List”, “Abstract
Report” and
“Claim Report” functions that had also been adversely effected by the
changes at the EPO.
Many thanks to Edi for his INPADOC
bug report. Many thanks to Bob and Sarah for
testing Patent Grabber on Snow
Leopard, and to the numerous
Patent Grabber purchasers for their suggestions!
Patent Downloading:
Patent Grabber makes it easy to
download U.S. patents and published
applications, European patents and published applications, PCT
published applications, and patent
documents from many other countries and patent-issuing organizations
for free from public patent archives:
Download multiple patents or
applications with a single click
Optionally download the patent or
application text (if made available by the USPTO or EPO)
Ver. 5.x combines all
patent
pages into a single PDF on Mac OS X (Tiger or later) and Windows (2000
and later)
Windows requires two free helper
applications (see Quick Start or full instructions for details)
The Mac Classic version downloads
the pages
of each patent into their own folder (international document
downloading not implemented yet)
Download every page or just the
pages of selected sections (e.g., just the first page and claims)
Create
a spreadsheet that contains bibliographic information for multiple
U.S.
patents (optional family identifier, patent number, issue date, title,
filing date, application
number, inventor(s), assignee, abstract, foreign priority, US class,
international class, legal representative, field of search, cited U.S.
patents)
Download the INPADOC international
legal status information for any number of patents or applications with
a single click (example)
Mac OS X Ver. 5.x can print muliple
selected patents and applications with a single click
U.S., EP-A and PCT Searching:
Three search interfaces:
Quick
- allows more search terms than the USPTO's "Quick" search (which
allows only two), and is more robust (allows multiple AND and OR
connectors)
Advanced
- the search aids (see below) make it easy to construct a complex
search (not available for EP-A searching)
Issuance
or Publication - makes it easy
to search for multiple classes, companies or other search terms in
patents or published applications that
were issued or published on a date or within a date range (not
available for EP-A searching)
Helpful search aids:
Choose search field
codes from a dropdown list. The list automatically adjusts depending
upon whether you choose a U.S. patent, U.S. publication or PCT
publication search.
Custom "Date
Interface" guides you through the process of entering dates and date
ranges in the proper USPTO or WIPO format
Dropdown list of countries assists
finding the correct
two-letter code when you choose a search field that requires the entry
of a Country Code
Each individual search result can be
viewed in
three ways:
Full text
Abstract and bibliographic
information (faster
than full text)
INPADOC Patent Family (patents and applications in the U.S. and many
other countries
that
are in some way related to a patent or application)
Each can be saved or
printed. The
saved list
of patent family information will be in tab-delimited format for easy
importation into a spreadsheet or word processing table.
Save all of your search results in any of four different
ways:
Titles: a
tab-delimited list of the patent/application numbers and the titles
that can be opened by a spreadsheet program (e.g., MS Excel)
Sortable List: a
tab-delimited list of bibliographic information that can be opened by a
spreadsheet program. This makes it easy to sort by assignee, inventor,
or International Patent Classification
Abstract Report: an HTML
file that can be opened by a web browser or MS Word that contains the
abstract of each patent/application along with bibliographic
information
Claim Report: a text file
that contains the patent/application number, issue/publication date,
title, assignee, and all of the claims of each patent or application
Requirements, Licenses and
Download Links:
Patent Grabber 5.8 for Mac
requires a
PowerPC or Intel Mac (runs
natively as a "universal binary"
application). OS X Tiger (OS
10.4.x) or later (Leopard or Snow Leopard) is required.
Patent
Grabber 5.8 for Windows requires a PC running Windows 2000 or
later, plus the freePDFTK.exe and C42PDF.exe helper applications. See
Quick Start or the full instructions for details.
Patent Grabber is
initially in a free Evaluation Mode (limited to
downloading the first five pages of multiple patents or a single
INPADOC legal status summary).
License Fees:
Patent
Grabber 5.8: $30 ($10
to
upgrade
from Versions 1 through 4; free upgrade from any previous Version 5.x)
What's
New with Ver. 2.5: added two columns of statistical information.
The first column shows the number of patents in the family. When the
"International" option is selected, the second column shows the number
of unique countries and/or regions in the family. When the "US only"
option is selected, the second column will be blank.
Family-izer
is a free web-based
application to retrieve patent family information for patents and
published applications. It utilizes the European Patent Office's
INPADOC database. Once you have installed the free revWeb plugin
from Runtime Revolution, just go
to the Family-izer
page to use it.
However, if you do not want to do that right now, here is a snapshot of
what it
would look like:
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