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Improve patent search efficiency

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20 July 2010

A brief guide on using Aspator at Firefox

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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 resultsAbstract 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)

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

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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

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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

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

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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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