[Genealib] Google Patents: A drawback

[Wundercapo]

Thanks for the great powerpoint, Dawn. Another thing I would recommend, if
you'd like to download a copy of the full patent in PDF format (more
convenient than the page-by-page available from Google or the USPTO), is to
use the patent number to do a number search at the European Patent Office.
Their patents are in PDF format, and are downloadable as a whole (not
page-by-page)

http://ep.espacenet.com/numberSearch?locale=en_EP

You can put "US" before the number to retrieve only US patents (e.g.,
US1234567)

According to their help screens, the EPO has from facsimiles from 1836
onward for the US.

James

On 19/12/06, Dawn Rohan <DROHAN at state.wy.us> wrote:
>
> The first U.S. patent was issued in 1790 to Samuel Hopkins of
> Philadelphia.  Searching the patent number X1 will pull it up but not
> Samuel Hopkins.
>
> Google Patent Search is far from perfect and there are other OCR
> databases available at Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries.
> Sometimes a search of multiple OCR databases is required to get ok
> search results.  If your patron is lucky, a PTDL in their state has
> created a human indexed, field searchable database of patents issued to
> residents of their state.  To find a list of these databases go to:
> http://www.ptdla.org/resources/statepatentdatabases.html.
>
> Also on this website is a copy of a Powerpoint I created on using
> Patents of Invention as Genealogical Resources
> (
> http://www.ptdla.org/handouts/Patents%20of%20Invention%20as%20Genealogical%20Resources.ppt
> ).  Feel free to use it.   Unfortunately it may take awhile to download
> since I used a lot of patent images as examples.
>
>
>
> Dawn Rohan
> Intellectual Property Librarian
> Wyoming State Library
> Cheyenne, WY 82002
> drohan at state.wy.us
> 307-777-7281
>
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