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Patents

Patent documents are very interesting and useful. Through them one can access the current technology level and also by submitting a patent you can protect your ideas and inventions in order to develop a competitive and innovative product or sell the patent as such.

These documents are available online free of charge and anyone can access them through the respected offices, Here you can read some very basic information about how to read and save patent documents through the European and the US patent offices.

european patent office

You can access epo via this website:

www.european-patent-office.org

You can search patent documents here::

http://ep.espacenet.com/search97cgi/s97_cgi.exe?Action=FormGen&Template=ep/en/advanced.hts

You can use keywords such as the inventor's name or company or the patent number.

After submitting your keywords a results page is generated. Many of the results refer to patent applications and the full document is yet to be accessed online but most results are the full documents of granted patents.

After selecting one of the results you can see the following synopsis of the patent. By clicking in the 'original document' link (pointed with the red arrow in the screenshot) a pdf document will open inside your browser. You should have a pdf reader like the Adobe Acrobat reader and your browser may stall for a while.

You can now read or save the file to your computer. If you only see the content table press the button pointed with the red arrow 1 in the following picture. To read the next page press the next button (pointed with arrow 2). Every page is in a separate pdf file so you should save them separately.

united states patent office

You can access the us patent office via its website:

www.uspto.gov

You can search for patent documents in the following links:

http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html

http://patft1.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.htm

Instead of pdf format here the documents are in plain html so they can be saved easily. However images are a bit more difficult to save. Images open with quicktime player and they have the suffix .DImg. You can rename the files to .jpg for easier handling. If you cannot save them through quicktime you can always take a screenshot.

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european patent office
united states patent office