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How to use aspator in your patent search
- 1. Improve patent search efficiency Provide to you by D-Publish, http://www.d-publish.com Contact us at [email_address] 20 July 2010 A brief guide on using Aspator at Firefox
- 2. Table of Contents Background System requirements Conduct a search Viewing search results Translation Saving search results
- 3. Background Goals Increase patent search and patent digestion efficiency Design goal Eliminate any middle-men involvement between a user’s computer and patent office for security and efficiency purposes Save search results at a user’s computer, instead at the server Use Google Translate for translation and Google Cloud (App Engine) for displaying diagrams
- 4. System Requirements Firefox 3.0 or above Windows, Mac, and Linux Broadband access
- 5. Conduct a search Search US granted patents or patent applications at http://patft.uspto.gov Use quick search or advanced search to conduct a search
- 6. Conduct a search (cont’d) Enter the search query as usual
- 7. Search results without Aspator
- 8. Search results with Aspator See the differences?
- 9. Buttons at the top Save and Records are to save and retrieve patent search results 5 buttons at the top are used to open/close all corresponding boxes Abstract Claim 1st Info Drawing Analyzer to analyze USPTO classification of the search results mPDF – link to mass download of PDFs of the search results at D-Publish D-Publish – link to defensive publishing service
- 10. Viewing search results Use of the buttons to the left of each patent A – Abstract C – Claims 1 – First claim I - Bibliographic information D – Drawings E – Link to espacenet P – Download PDF (pat2pdf.org) G – Link to Google Patent
- 11. Viewing search results Abstract and Claims Click to read the abstract Click to read the first claim and all the claims
- 12. Viewing search results (cont’d) Click to read bibliographic information of a patent Click to show the drawings of the patent (page 2 to page 4 of the patent) Bibliographic data and Drawings
- 13. Viewing search results (cont’d) E - use to show the espacenet webpage of the patent P - use to link to pat2pdf.org and can then download the PDF of the patent from there G – link to Google Patent. May result in error as Google Patent seems not updating their database often espacenet, PDF and Google Patent
- 14. Translation Enable translation by selecting your choice of language at Tool -> Add-ons -> Options (Aspator)
- 15. Saving search results 1. Select the patents that you want to save 2. Click the Save button 3. Choose or create a project code to save the patents selected
- 16. Saving search results (cont’d) Click the Records button to retrieve previous saved patent search results. A new window will appear.
- 17. Thank You! http://www.d-publish.com [email_address]