What's new in Patent Grabber 6.4.2-01 (1)
Jan 31, 2018
- Fixed a PCT searching issue caused by changes at WIPO.
New in Patent Grabber 6.3-06 (1) (Nov 26, 2014)
- Patent Grabber now supports free registration at the European Patent Office to support use of their Open Patent Services (“OPS”) servers.
- Follow the steps found in the “Preferences” section of the Patent Grabber instructions to apply for and use your free account.
- Registration will provide faster and more reliable use of Patent Grabber features that use OPS functions.
- Those include downloading of EP, PCT and international patent documents, retrieval of patent family data for US Biblio and US Biblio + spreadsheets and for search results, and downloading of INPADOC legal status data
New in Patent Grabber 6.2-10 LC6 (2) (Sep 25, 2013)
- Fised Us patent and application downloading that was broken due to changes at the USPTO. Those changes eliminated the need for one of the free helper application, since USPTO is now serving patent documents in PDF format instead of TIFF format
- Modified demo mode to limit the downloading field to one patent at a time
- Added international searching using the European Patent Office' library
New in Patent Grabber 5.9.3 (Dec 12, 2011)
- Searching:
- Using “Get the Rest” to complete a long list of search results will no longer cause
- Patent Grabber to hang when it gets to search results >15,150
- Installation:
- Expand the .zip archive (double-clicking it will usually start an application such as
- WinZip that will do that), and drag the resulting Patent Grabber folder to your
- My Documents” or “Programs” folder. There is no need for an "installer.”
New in Patent Grabber 5.9.2 (Dec 12, 2011)
- Downloading
- Tweaked the filtering field below the list of downloaded patents so that it works
- more consistently
- Searching
- Fixed PCT searching. Changes to WIPO’s PatentScope search service had
- broken Patent Grabber’s ability to search for PCT published patent applications
New in Patent Grabber 5.9.1-01(1) (Aug 25, 2011)
- Fixed an issue that could cause Patent Grabber to crash when downloading the text of a PCT application in which the claims section is larger than about 300 KB.
New in Patent Grabber 5.8.5-02(1) (Feb 10, 2011)
- This release reestablishes the downloading of granted European patents (EP-B) that was broken when the EPO changed the URL of the European Publication Server. In the Search function, it also fixes an issue with bibliographic information for U.S. design patents.
New in Patent Grabber 5.8.4-01(1) (Dec 22, 2010)
- This release fixes the "Sortable List" feature of Patent Grabber's patent searching function for U.S. patents that have a published application (Kind Code=B2). The publication date of the application was appearing where the patent issue date was supposed to be. This was an unnoticed result of last spring's changes at the EPO's "Open Patent Services" server.
New in Patent Grabber 5.8.3-03(1) (Dec 7, 2010)
- Adds further details to its international patent status report that will help users understand the legal status of the patent in many European countries.
- Also, search results that are displayed in Patent Family format now have a description of each family member's Kind Code
New in Patent Grabber 5.8.2-01(1) (Sep 15, 2010)
- Made adjustments for changes at the European Patent Office that prevented the downloading of EP, PCT and International patents.
New in Patent Grabber 5.8-06(1) (Jul 5, 2010)
- Added full-text EP-A searching (up to 30 hits). Fixed the downloading issues for EP, PCT and International patent documents that had been caused by changes at the European Patent Office.
New in Patent Grabber 5.7.4-01(1) (Apr 24, 2010)
- Fixed a bug that would result in a blank legal status summary if the patent or application had been published with two or more "Kind Codes" under the same publication number.
New in Patent Grabber 5.7.3-10(1) (Apr 5, 2010)
- A maintenance release to respond to changes made by the European Patent Office to its Open Patent Services server. All users must upgrade to maintain this functionality after the EPO's cut off date of March 31
New in Patent Grabber 5.7.2-01(1) (Feb 13, 2010)
- maintenance release to respond to changes made by the European Patent Office to its Open Patent Services server
New in Patent Grabber 5.7.1-02(1) (Jan 11, 2010)
- U.S. patent and application downloading - minor update to conform Patent Grabber to changes made on the USPTO server.
New in Patent Grabber 5.7-01(1) (Dec 19, 2009)
- The "US Patent Bibliographic" feature now offers the option on including patent family identifiers. This allows the patents in the resulting spreadsheet to be grouped by patent family and so aids in the analysis of large patent porfolios
New in Patent Grabber 5.6.2-02(1) (Nov 28, 2009)
- Downloading: Eliminates the downloading of duplicative pages in certain international patents.
- Searching: Eliminates run-on words in the text of the claims of PCT publications.
New in Patent Grabber 5.6.1-02(2) (Sep 14, 2009)
- Minor update to provide better text downloading and viewing for PCT publications where the publication language is not English.