Another free PDF generator for U.S. Patents
A reader of this site has alerted me to his website www.asitri.com where you can get text or PDFs of U.S. patent publications. When a patent number is typed into the search box, the abstract of the document is returned along with all the U.S. patent documents that are referenced on the front page. Links are provided to the text at the U.S. PTO site, PDFs of the document, as well as other U.S. patents that have referenced the one of interest.
The advantages of this site are the PDF documents, it is no charge, and ready linkage to other U.S. patents that are referenced by and reference to the one of interest.
What is lacking on this site is the ability to obtain U.S. patent applications that are published. My own very small whinge is that (like many other sites) asitri does not work properly in Firefox 1.0, which is my preferred web browser these days.
NOTE: to use this site, you first need to know the patent number of the document you want.
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on October 23rd, 2004 at 5:08 am
Bad site info. Nothing remotely related to searching patents.
on November 5th, 2004 at 9:19 am
The site works but is of limited added value compared to the USPTO. I use a small program called “PatentPleeze” that fetch full patents. Works Ok. (get US Applications)http://web.ncf.ca/ex133
on November 8th, 2004 at 2:32 pm
Hello Carol,
I wrote a small program for downloading US, EP, PCT, Canadian, DE, UK and FR patents. The main functionality lies in its ability to download from a highlighted portion of text in a browser (IE, Opera and Firefox instructions are available.)
http://www.intelprop.ca/freePat