Improve patent search efficiency

A brief guide on using Aspator at Firefox

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20 July 2010

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Table of Contents

Background

System requirements

Conduct a search

Viewing search results

Translation

Saving search results

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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
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System Requirements

Firefox 3.0 or above

Windows, Mac, and Linux

Broadband access

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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

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Conduct a search (cont’d)

Enter the search

query as usual

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Search results without Aspator

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Search results with Aspator

See the differences?

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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

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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

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Viewing search results
Abstract and Claims

Click to read
the abstract

Click to
read the
first claim
and all the
claims

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Viewing search results (cont’d)
Bibliographic data and Drawings

Click to read
bibliographic
information of a
patent

Click to show the

drawings of the
patent (page 2 to
page 4 of the patent)

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Viewing search results (cont’d)
espacenet, PDF and Google Patent

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
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Translation

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

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Saving search results

2. Click the Save button

3. Choose or create a project

1. Select the patents code to save the patents selected
that you want to save

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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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