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Product Description:
Pronto Patent is a native Mac OS X application that downloads issued patents and published applications (scanned page images) from the USPTO. All pages of each patent are placed in a single PDF document for easy retrieval and printing. Includes built-in search tool. Full text is also downloaded as HTML.
What's new in this version:
Fixed Search function for Leopard. Dropped leading zeroes from patent number in filenames.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 or later
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Very Cool 
- Version: 1.0, 2/17/2005 01:50AM PST
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oscarruitt_dotmac
A very cool program. It does what it says. It joins all of the downloaded PDF files (the patent office makes each page a separate file--Einsteins) into a single PDF. You can even do simple searches (the same as the basic search on the USPTO web page, which is frequently good enough) with the matches in a list, from which you can select (or Select All) of the ones that you want to download. It doesn't do non-U.S. patents or published applications (I think) and those are the only reasons that I can see for not giving this a five-star rating. Let's hope for an update with those features.
If you've searched manually on the patent site you know what a pain it is trying to view the tiffs of patents 1 page at a time. As far as actually downloading patents it would take me 10-30min depending on the size of the patent to get all the tiffs, and then use adobe pro to join them in one document. It was not worth the time except for the smallest ones.
However, with this software it's just point and click. Either use the built in search feature (1st 50 hits only) or type in the patent or app numbers. Click download and in seconds you have a complete multipage pdf of all the tiffs joined together as well as a text searchable html file. And, yes you can download multiple patents at once.
I recommend this very highly for anyone that does patent searches on a frequent or infrequent basis due to the ease of use over the native USPO website.