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Product Description:
Downloads patent specifications from Japan and US Patent Offices and WIPO. It can search by patent number and directly save the combination of text and each figures.
What's new in this version:
Enabled downloading from WIPO website
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.0
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS Classic
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Have 3.0.5, VT STILL says I have 3.0.4 - Version: 3.0.5, 11/16/2006 03:53AM PST
pettifogger_za
I have downloaded PD3.0.5 about five times (both via VT and via the official site) and even though file info CONFIRMS that I have 3.0.5 installed, VT still detects it as being 3.0.4...(!)
Best in class 
- Version: 3.01, 6/17/2006 05:01PM PST
(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)
oscarruitt_dotmac
This patent downloader is the best-in-class. It is Cocoa and is developing quite rapidly. My rating is for its current state of development (duh) and I hope to be able to give a five-star rating later.
The window is split into a part that is a web browser (Web Kit, I assume) so that you can access the various (U.S., Japan, WTO) patent sites and do searches just like you are accustomed to doing. If you want to download a patent, it appears in the other part of the split screen which uses a variation on the TextEdit kit. Text appears first, followed by all of the scanned images, so you have both a searching ability plus the official record (the image) of the patent. Saving to disk of the TextEdit part results in a .rtfd file which can be opened by TextEdit itself or Pages, etc. The images can optionally be cropped to eliminate the margins so that they are displayed to maximally use your screen space, and when viewed in TextEdit etc., the apparent margins of your document are exactly as you specify, _not_ your specified margins _plus_ the image pages' margins. The best part of this--get this-- is that Patent Downloader can be set to crop all image pages automatically. Also, images can be rotated so that drawings that are drawn sideways on the page can be more conveniently viewed. Almost amazingly, there is an option that scans U.S. patents for mathematics mark-up and partially converts some of it so that it is displayed as proper typeset mathematics.
The program is very easy to use and is well-integrated with the OS, as one would expect of a Cocoa program. The developer has been extremely responsive.
This is a very good effort and quite worthy of $$ if the author should so request, but so far it's free.
The window is split into a part that is a web browser (Web Kit, I assume) so that you can access the various (U.S., Japan, WTO) patent sites and do searches just like you are accustomed to doing. If you want to download a patent, it appears in the other part of the split screen which uses a variation on the TextEdit kit. Text appears first, followed by all of the scanned images, so you have both a searching ability plus the official record (the image) of the patent. Saving to disk of the TextEdit part results in a .rtfd file which can be opened by TextEdit itself or Pages, etc. The images can optionally be cropped to eliminate the margins so that they are displayed to maximally use your screen space, and when viewed in TextEdit etc., the apparent margins of your document are exactly as you specify, _not_ your specified margins _plus_ the image pages' margins. The best part of this--get this-- is that Patent Downloader can be set to crop all image pages automatically. Also, images can be rotated so that drawings that are drawn sideways on the page can be more conveniently viewed. Almost amazingly, there is an option that scans U.S. patents for mathematics mark-up and partially converts some of it so that it is displayed as proper typeset mathematics.
The program is very easy to use and is well-integrated with the OS, as one would expect of a Cocoa program. The developer has been extremely responsive.
This is a very good effort and quite worthy of $$ if the author should so request, but so far it's free.
I now go here for my searches: http://www.google.com/patents
After multiple attempts in printed books and Mac software, on Google I found my grandfather's patent from 1938, downloaded it, and now have it printed here in my office.
Thanks Google.