April 04, 2005

Guide to Downloading Patents from the Internet

In this weblog posting from The Invent Blog, Patent attorney Stephen M. Nipper reminds us that "the USPTO has never provided the ability to download multiple page TIFF or PDF copies of patents/patent applications. " Nipper provides a useful list of sources that can help searchers successfully download patents in readable (usually PDF) format.

Posted by ritavine at 10:18 AM
Description
SiteLines is written by Rita Vine, a professional librarian, web search trainer, and lead site evaluator of the Search Portfolio web search product.

Together with other members of the Search Portfolio selection team, Rita monitors over 50 key alerting services related to web search tools, site announcements, and the business of web search. SiteLines is intended to present a distillation of the most important trends, news, and new web search tools and directories.

Sitelines is sponsored by the Search Portfolio, a licensed web desktop of the 100 top peer-reviewed web sites for searching.

Subscribe
Subscribe Unsubscribe
Search


Archives
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
December 2004
November 2004
October 2004
September 2004
August 2004
July 2004
June 2004
May 2004
April 2004
March 2004
February 2004
January 2004
December 2003
November 2003
October 2003
September 2003
August 2003
July 2003
June 2003
May 2003
April 2003
March 2003
Recent Entries
Guide to Downloading Patents from the Internet
Categories
Boolean Searching (1)
E-Mail (4)
Google (48)
Handheld Computers (1)
Images (2)
Information Literacy (10)
Internet Filters (3)
Miscellaneous (13)
News Stories (16)
Patents (1)
RSS (2)
Resources - Business (13)
Resources - Health (19)
Resources - Misc. (45)
Search Engines (4)
Search Engines - Best Practices (14)
Search Engines - Business Issues (24)
Search Engines - Impact on Searching (7)
Searching - Best Practices (15)
Searching - User Behavior (6)
Software (7)
Spyware (2)
Staying Current (3)
Trends & Predictions (2)
Links
SiteLines Home
Workingfaster.com
Upcoming Courses
Search Portfolio
XML for Site Syndication(XML)