How to use aspator in your patent search
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A brief guide on using Aspator at Firefox to increase patent search efficiency
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Improve patent search efficiency
Provide to you by D-Publish, http://www.d-publish.com
Contact us at [email protected]
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.
