Sunday, May 13, 2007

Breaking News on Google Patent Search - Free PDF

Google's motto is "Do No Evil". This makes good business sense as Google's business model depends entirely on users' trust which over time morphed into an addiction-like dependency on Google's technology. Can you imagine a day without Google search? Part of the addiction-like dependency is derived from an atmosphere of a "free buffet" when using Google technology. Doing a Google search is like attending a free buffet; it is free, you can have as much as you want and the quality is usually quite good.

I reported in December that Google has launched patent search service ("Google Patent Search is Hot"). The major deficiencies are you cannot print or download a copy of the PDF file. No more ...........

Google Patent Search has just added a download PDF function. Look for the [Download PDF] button in the patent's About page. This button is located under Patent summary column and is the second button below the thumbnail view. Click here to see an example. Try it. The download is blindingly fast. The PDF is also very compact and we suspect Google is using JBIG2 compression. This new service by Google will certainly impact on competitive services like FreePatentOnline, IP Discover, Patent Hunter, Pat2PDF and Delphion.

Updated May 14, 2007: Yes, Google PDFs uses JBIG2 image compression. There is no free lunch even at a buffet (pardon the pun). Google's PDFs are compact and download very fast but the image quality is to be desired.

WizPatent Manager is a patent document management software. This software download patent documents such as text files and PDFs from public sources such as USPTO and Espacenet. The software is fully compatible with these database but is also seamlessly integrated with the native search interface of USPTO, Espacenet, FreePatentOnlin and Google Patent Search. We have just released WizPatent Manager Version 80. Unfortunately there was not enough time to do include the feature of direct import of PDF from Google Patent Search in the current version. We will include this feature in our next release.


What's new in WizPatent Manager Ver 80

1. WizPatent Manager Version 80 is now fully compatible with popular patent databases - FreePatentsOnline and Google Patents Search.

2. "Search and Retrieve" Panel now includes tabs for the search pages for major patent databases. You can now save your search queries and patent documents directly off USPTO, Espacenet, FreePatentsOnline and Google Patents Search WebPages into your patent collection.

3. Patent documents directly imported from the Patent Search Tabs will be stored automatically in Patent Collections after download. A pop-up message will inform you when they have been transferred to your collection.

4. You may now use filters to search by 4 new fields in your patent collection - Inventors, Assignees, as well as by keywords in both Annotations and Whole Text Document.

5. As USPTO was updating their PAIR website, you may have had problems assessing PAIR. We are pleased to inform you that we have re-integrated USPTO's PAIR ability into WizPatent Manager and you should have no more problems accessing PAIR.

6. All patent documents now show which database source they were downloaded from for your convenience.

7. WIPO and EPO now show 15 search results per page and WizPatent Manager has been updated to capture the full set of search results.

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