How to use aspator in your patent search

Improve patent search efficiency Provide to you by D-Publish, http://www.d-publish.com Contact us at [email_address] 20 July 2010 A brief guide on using Aspator at Firefox

Table of Contents
Background
System requirements
Conduct a search
Viewing search results
Translation
Saving search results

Background
Goals
Increase patent search and patent digestion efficiency
Design goal
Eliminate any middle-men involvement between a user’s computer and patent office for security and efficiency purposes
Save search results at a user’s computer, instead at the server
Use Google Translate for translation and Google Cloud (App Engine) for displaying diagrams

System Requirements
Firefox 3.0 or above
Windows, Mac, and Linux
Broadband access

Conduct a search
Search US granted patents or patent applications at http://patft.uspto.gov
Use quick search or advanced search to conduct a search

Conduct a search (cont’d) Enter the search query as usual

Search results without Aspator

Search results with Aspator See the differences?

Buttons at the top
Save and Records are to save and retrieve patent search results
5 buttons at the top are used to open/close all corresponding boxes
Abstract
Claim
1st
Info
Drawing
Analyzer to analyze USPTO classification of the search results
mPDF – link to mass download of PDFs of the search results at D-Publish
D-Publish – link to defensive publishing service

Viewing search results
Use of the buttons to the left of each patent
A – Abstract
C – Claims
1 – First claim
I - Bibliographic information
D – Drawings
E – Link to espacenet
P – Download PDF (pat2pdf.org)
G – Link to Google Patent

Viewing search results Abstract and Claims Click to read the abstract Click to read the first claim and all the claims

Viewing search results (cont’d) Click to read bibliographic information of a patent Click to show the drawings of the patent (page 2 to page 4 of the patent) Bibliographic data and Drawings

Viewing search results (cont’d)
E - use to show the espacenet webpage of the patent
P - use to link to pat2pdf.org and can then download the PDF of the patent from there
G – link to Google Patent. May result in error as Google Patent seems not updating their database often
espacenet, PDF and Google Patent

Translation
Enable translation by selecting your choice of language at Tool -> Add-ons -> Options (Aspator)

Saving search results 1. Select the patents that you want to save 2. Click the Save button 3. Choose or create a project code to save the patents selected

Saving search results (cont’d) Click the Records button to retrieve previous saved patent search results. A new window will appear.

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How to use aspator in your patent search

by patentinfo on Jul 17, 2010

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