Excellent tool for patent searching and research

August 19, 2004 on 2:09 pm | In Patent Searching |

On my to do list for some time has been blogging about my experience in using an excellent program called IP-Discover (http://www.ipdiscover.com/).  If I remember right, Keith Nagel of IP-Discover sent me an email saying…”great blog, have you tried our software?” (or something like that).  I told him I would try it….

My current patent searching/downloading solution is using GETIPDL ($89).  GETIPDL is one of the original solutions for downloading complete PDF copies of patents.  Of course, there are quite a few patent downloading services/software packages now, including websites that offer patent copies at low, cheap and free prices (www.pat2pdf.com and http://patents.oncloud8.com/).  Anyway…I love GETIPDL and encourage everyone who hasn’t tried it to try it. 

Thus, Mr. Nagel had his work cut out for him…and he delivered.  IP-Discover has three main components (search, retrieve and browse).  Under search you can search the Internet using an integrated browser (IE?) window (patent searching (dropdown links to all of the various USPTO and EPO search pages) as well as, search engines, patent classification manuals and foreign patent offices).  Under retrieve, you can download copies of all of the patents you found in your search.  Under browse, you can view (within the browser) what you downloaded (including storing and organizing your old patent searches.

I am very impressed and encourage you to give their software a try ($175).  See:  http://www.ipdiscover.com/.

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