Nine Patent Tools for you….
July 3, 2006 on 8:20 am | In Patent Searching |PatTools.com has nine different patent tools available which my readers may enjoy:
Claim Chart Generator (for issued patents and patent applications) This tool automatically creates a claim chart template for your use. The Claim Chart Generator includes multiple options for formatting the claim chart including the number of columns in the chart and page orientation. The Claim Chart Generator can also generate charts for specific patent claims, all claims, or all independent claims.
Patent Navigator This tool automatically creates a web page containing a patent and provides options to view the entire patent or to view only portions of a patent. Options include viewing only high-level information regarding a patent (such as the only the title, abstract, and other information commonly found on the front page) and/or only the independent claims. Great for quickly reviewing patents at a very high level.
Independent Claim Comparison Chart Generator This tool automatically creates a claim chart with all of the independent claims side-by-side for your use. Very useful for comparing independent claims and identifying similarities (or differences) between independent claims. Claim Tree Generator This tool automatically creates a tree of all claims for your convenience. The tree provides the user with a quick view of the dependencies for all claims in a patent.
Patent Information Table Generator This tool creates a table of various information fields for multiple patents. Some examples of supported information fields include title, filing date, and inventors. This may be one of the most useful tools when creating reports.
Patent-to-PDF Generator (NEW!) This tool automatically creates a PDF of a US patent. Unlike other online tools which may cost money, image-only PDFs of US patents are free! For a nominal fee, you can also have the patent OCR’d so that it is text searchable!
USPTO Patent Link Generator This tool automatically creates hyperlinks to any patent numbers you provide. Useful for inserting into documents and spreadsheets where you want your patent numbers to hyperlink to the USPTO website.
Search Assignment Tool (NEW!) This tool creates a report of all assignment information retrieved from the Assignment Database search on the USPTO website. Huge timesaver when there are a lot of results.
Patent Summary This tool automatically creates a web page containing high-level patent information for any number of supplied patents. The high-level information includes abstract, inventorship and priority information, and the claims. Great for quickly reviewing a large number of patents at a very high level.
Other such tools can be found at the bottom of my patent downloading guide.
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Cool ideas but most of the tools don’t actually seem to work.
Comment by M — July 3, 2006 #
They should work fine. At least, they work for me but I happen to be the webmaster. Please let me know if you run into any troubles with the tools and I’ll address them asap. (I had a server upgrade during/around the July 4th weekend so you might have tried accessing the site during the time it was taken offline.)
Thanks!
Comment by Kevin Lau — July 11, 2006 #