Patent Grabber 6.1 is now available.

Patent Grabber 6.1 is now available. Fixed the U.S. published application downloading problem. EPO text is now downloaded more fully. Changed "demo mode" to allow one click to download one full length patent as opposed to the first five pages of an unlimited number of patents.

http://www.blazingdawn.com/patent_tools.html

Patent Grabber: US publication downloads broken by USPTO changes

Changes at the USPTO have broken Patent Grabber's ability to download US published patent applications. I am working on a fix.

In the meantime, the workaround is to download US applications using Patent Grabber's "International" option. That downloads the US applications from the EPO rather than the USPTO. There are, however, two changes that you must make:

1) Each publication number must be preceded by "US";

2) the publication number, itself, must be only 10 digits in length. So delete the zero that follows the four digits of the year.

Patent Grabber 6.1 coming soon!

Working on Patent Grabber(TM) 6.1. If you have found something that needs to be fixed or improved, please let me know.

Patent Grabber 6.0 for Windows is available!

Patent Grabber 6.0 for Windows is now available for download from the Blazing Dawn Software "Patent Tools" page. This includes the two new download options, Claim Report and Abstract Report, as well as a host of fixes.

Patent Grabber 6.0 is here with Mountain Lion compatibility!

Patent Grabber 6.0 for Mac OS X is now available for download from the Blazing Dawn Software "Patent Tools" page. This version is Mountain Lion compatible. It also adds two new download options: Claim Report and Abstract Report. Those reports were previously limited to use with search results. There are also lots of fixes (e.g., PCT searching works again; EP title searching works again).

I posted a beta of Patent Grabber 6.0 that will hopefully fix the problem Mac OSX Mountain Lion users are experiencing with U.S. patent and application downloading. Download it from:
http://www.blazingdawn.com/sw/Patent_Grabber_60-10_ML_beta.zip.

Mountain Lion users: please let me hear from you!

This version is also good for previous Mac OSX systems back to and including Tiger.

Mountain Lion: U.S. downloading problem in Patent Grabber

There is a problem when Patent Grabber tries to download U.S. patents and applications from the USPTO under OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). Since the USPTO patent pages are in TIFF format, Patent Grabber must convert each page of a patent to PDF format before combining the pages into a single PDF file. Under Mountain Lion the TIFF-to-PDF conversion has stopped working.

The work-around until I find a fix is to download U.S. patents and applications using Patent Grabber's "International" function. However, remember to precede each number with "US".