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freepatentsonline.com is going to start charging

MeSynth - 6-8-2011 at 13:59

lol please delete this

[Edited on 6-8-2011 by MeSynth]

Nicodem - 6-8-2011 at 14:53

I never understood why all those weir sites that offer patent downloads even exist. What's the advantage of using that?
Quote: Originally posted by MeSynth  
Does anyone know of a way to look at US patents in pdf format without using this site?

You go and download them from the patent office site, obviously. Patents can not be exclusively pay per view as that could be considered a breach of the disclosure principle (which is the most basic reason why patents exist at all in the first place!). Utmost an administrative fee could be charged for photocopies and such, but with Internet accessibility of the scanned material, even this can not be done anymore. So they are to remain accessible for as long as the national states exist. Some countries have not yet scanned all the older patents, so these have to be ordered by mail, but they are accessible even though requiring some effort and some expenses.
Which patent office you need to use depends on the national code of the patent you look for. USA patents can be accessed from either their national patent office (USPTO) or trough most transnational patent institutions (WIPO, EPO) or trough GooglePatents (which has them OCR-ed). European countries made their patents accessible trough EPO. Since newer patents are commonly processed firstly trans-nationally via WIPO, you can get the original document there even before a patent gets nationalized in specific countries.

The WiZard is In - 6-8-2011 at 15:43

Quote: Originally posted by Nicodem  
I never understood why all those weir sites that offer patent downloads even exist. What's the advantage of using that?
Quote: Originally posted by MeSynth  
Does anyone know of a way to look at US patents in pdf format without using this site?

You go and download them from the patent office site, obviously.



You can DL US Patents in PDF format from —

Google.com/patents. It's not perfect a time or two I had
to go to the USPTO web site.

hissingnoise - 7-8-2011 at 10:35

Quote:
You can DL US Patents in PDF format from—Google.com/patents. It's not perfect a time or two I had to go to the USPTO web site.

The misspellings in google titles can be hilarious!
And here's a 1938 explosive rivet from Naoúm, with an unusual choice of fill . . .