In an earlier article (see the same category as this), I have referred to how WIPO and espac@net allow some rather nifty ways to rapidly download and browse patent information. For some time, I have been looking for ways to the same with USPTO but have not been successful: you get only patent (application) number, and title.
Well, I found a solution for my Macintosh (and I'm sure you Windows and Linux guys can find a similar solution at Bruce Pokras' web site). It works!
Patent Grabber creates a set of files on my hard disk. With Mac I can then use the internal index search engine, Spotlight, to find the files with hits that match my interest (Windows users will use Copernic, I guess).
Patent Grabber also works with WIPO and EPO files. To create the files from downloads from those respective web sites, you need to isolate the information containing country code and patent number (it takes a bit of copy-paste & find-replace in Excel, for instance, to create such a list. Fast!
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