What's new in Patent Grabber 6.4.1
Jun 27, 2016
- Downloading:
- Fixed a lot of “link rot” issues.
- Added ability to mix U.S. issued patents and published applications in the “Download” list.
- Added the ability to save everything that is downloaded into a single Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file. Especially useful if you are just downloading the bibliographic pages from multiple patents and you want them combined into a single PDF document.
- See the "Preferences" section of the Patent Grabber instructions for a description of how you can obtain a free EPO "Open Patent Services" (OPS) account and then generate credentials for you to use with your copy of Patent Grabber. Those credentials will reduce the chance of the EPO temporarily locking you out of their OPS databases for overusage. Several of Patent Grabber's features make use of OPS.
- Searching:
- Fixed a lot of “link rot” issues.
New in Patent Grabber 6.3 (Nov 26, 2014)
- Added ability for a user to save European Patent Office credentials for their copy of Patent Grabber. That allows Patent Grabber to operate at maximum speed without liklihood of being locked out by the EPO for over usage. Obtaining EPO credentials is free, and is highly recommended for all users who: 1) use US Patent Biblio with "Include Family Identifiers" checked, 2) use US Patent Biblio +, download EP, PCT or International patent documents, or download INPADOC legal status reports.
- See the "Preferences" section of the Patent Grabber instructions for a description of how you can obtain a free EPO "Open Patent Services" account and then generate credentials for you to use with your copy of Patent Grabber.
New in Patent Grabber 6.1 (May 29, 2013)
- Fixes the ability to download U.S. published patent applications.
- Introduces a new "demo mode" that allows unlicensed users to download full-length patents.
New in Patent Grabber 6.0 (Sep 12, 2012)
- This version is Mountain Lion compatible.
- It also adds two new download options: Claim Report and Abstract Report.
- There are also lots of fixes (e.g., PCT searching works again; EP title searching works again).
New in Patent Grabber 5.9.5 (May 28, 2012)
- Provides a more permanent fix for the changes made by the European Patent Office to its Open Patent Services servers.
- Patent Grabber uses Open Patent Services for a number of its functions.
New in Patent Grabber 5.9.1 (Aug 22, 2011)
- Addresses an issue that was occurring during the downloading of the text of a PCT application. Patent Grabber could crash if the claims section of the application was particularly large (>300 KB). That has been fixed.
New in Patent Grabber 5.8.6 (Apr 27, 2011)
- Added a filtering field to make it easier to find a patent in the list of downloaded patents.
- Made changes to assure that the printing function would work under Snow Leopard.
New in Patent Grabber 5.8.5 (Feb 7, 2011)
- Reestablishes the downloading of granted European patents (EP-B) that was broken when the EPO changed the URL of the European Publication Server.
- In the Search function, it also fixes an issue with bibliographic information for U.S. design patents.
New in Patent Grabber 5.8.3 (Dec 6, 2010)
- Adds further details to Patent Grabber's international patent status report that will help users understand the legal status of the patent in many European countries.
- Also, search results that are displayed in Patent Family format now have a description of each family member's Kind Code.
New in Patent Grabber 5.8.2 (Sep 13, 2010)
- This update adjusts for a change made by the European Patent Office that prevented the downloading of EP, PCT and International patents.
New in Patent Grabber 5.8.1 (Sep 6, 2010)
- Windows version should now retain "licensed" state for all users under Windows 7.
- Brought back case insensitivity for U.S. patent numbers that start with letters, such as reissue patents.
- The "Check for Updates" button will now work from behind a proxy server if one is entered into Preferences.
New in Patent Grabber 5.8 (Jul 5, 2010)
- Added full-text EP-A searching (up to 30 hits).
- Fixed the downloading issues for EP, PCT and International patent documents that had been caused by changes at the European Patent Office.
New in Patent Grabber 5.7.3 (Mar 28, 2010)
- EP, PCT, International and INPADOC Downloading – another maintenance release to respond to changes made by the European Patent Office to its Open Patent Services server.
New in Patent Grabber 5.7.2 (Feb 15, 2010)
- Maintenance release to respond to changes made by the European Patent Office to its Open Patent Services server.
New in Patent Grabber 5.7.1 (Jan 11, 2010)
- Minor update to conform Patent Grabber to changes that were made on the USPTO server. Due to these changes on the USPTO server, patents or applications that did not contain drawings would download in their entirety even when the user had only selected specific sections to download. This is now fixed.
New in Patent Grabber 5.7 (Dec 19, 2009)
- FREE upgrade for registered users of Version 5.x.
- U.S. Patent Biblio – now offers the option of including patent family identifiers so
- that the spreadsheet of bibliographic information can be sorted by patent family.
- Great help in analyzing the patent portfolio of a company.
New in Patent Grabber 5.6.2 (Nov 28, 2009)
- Downloading:
- Eliminated duplicate pages that were being downloaded for some international patents.
- Searching:
- Text field no longer shows run-on words in the claims of PCT publications.
New in Patent Grabber 5.6.1 (Sep 9, 2009)
- Minor update to provide better text downloading and viewing for PCT publications where the publication language is not English.
New in Patent Grabber 5.6 (Aug 3, 2009)
- Added the ability to create a spreadsheet of bibliographic information for U.S. patents (see bold, below).
New in Patent Grabber 5.5 (Feb 23, 2009)
- Added the ability to download patents and published patent applications from many countries.
- Just select "International" from the dropdown menu in Patent Grabber's new, simpler downloading interface.
- Fixed the ability to download EP-B patents on Mac OS X.
New in Patent Grabber 5.4.1 (Dec 8, 2008)
- Fixed Patent Grabber's ability to download PCT and EP-A patent application images in PDF format.
New in Patent Grabber 5.4 (Oct 13, 2008)
- Added full text PCT searching through WIPO's PATENTSCOPE service and a couple of bug fixes.
New in Patent Grabber 5.3 (Apr 29, 2008)
- The incompatibility with Leopard 10.5.2 has been fixed.