Patent Law

PDF?s For Everyone

By Stephen Albainy-Jenei

Rolf Claessen of IP Newsflash fame as well as patent attorney and partner with the patent law firm v. Kreisler Selting Werner in Cologne, Germany, brings us the new Free Patent PDF Download tool.  It’s free. It’s easy to use. It has broad coverage (espacenet database).

My only complaint is that you need to register and login for downloading PDFs to avoid abuse by automated programs and I hate registering for anything.

John Segal sent me a note about another source for free PDF downloads of patents called the Patent Retriever (admit it, you knew there’d be a picture of a dog on the site).  Upside:  you can download US, European and PCT patent applications as PDF files for free without having to register.

In an equal-opportunity moment, the following are also available:

• Google Patent Search
• BrainDex Patent Downloader (not free)
• Pat2PDF (which isn’t working for me)
• EPC PDF Download
• Patent Fetcher (free but limited to 10/day)
• Patent Monkey (also not working)

Full post as published by Patent Baristas on June 03, 2008 (boomark / email).