Patent Grabber makes it easy to download U.S. patents and PCT published applications for free from public patent archives. Instead of going to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office or European Patent Office web site and loading and printing patent or application pages one at a time with your web browser, you simply give Patent Grabber a list of patents or PCT applications and click "Get Patents." Patent Grabber then downloads every page of all the patents or applications to your Mac while you do something else. And once the patents are downloaded, they are yours to keep and print from
What's New
Version 5.9.3:
Searching: when using “Get the Rest” to complete a long list of search results, Patent Grabber will no longer hang when it gets to search results greater than 15,150.
$25 is a bit steep to pay for something you can do for free via Google Scholar IMHO...
There is also a freeware app called Patent Downloader 3.2 (http://www.oneriver.jp/download/PatentDownloader.zip) that can search for EU, US and Japanese patents.
If you like "free" and only need to download ONE patent, then by all means use Google Patents or use Patent Downloader. You can only download one patent at a time with Google and Patent Downloader. Also, Patent Downloader does not give a nice clean PDF with individual pages.
However, if you have a list of patents that you wish to download (I once downloaded 1800 patents with a single click), then you need Patent Grabber. Plus, there are all the other features of Patent Grabber such as the bibliographic spreadsheet creator and INPADOC legal status summaries.
Google only lets you download one patent at a time. Patent Grabber automates the downloading process. Give it a list of patents and download them all with a single click. And you can easily add patent numbers to the download list from your search results.
Please ignore the previous comments if you are on OSX 10.3. This program (at version 3.5.1) works perfectly under OSX 10.3 and is excellent value for money. If you are in any doubt - download the trial and see for yourself. The developer is very responsive to feedback and to queries.
[Version 3.5.1]
Anonymousreviewed on 23 Aug 2004
The OS 9 dialog is gone. Thanks. I can see the application counting the 5 pages it is downloading.
But WHERE are they going???
On the desktop no "Library" folder is created. When I put the application in the Applications folder, a "Library" folder is created but it stays empty! WHERE are you putting the patents I downloaded?
OS X 10.3.5
[Version 3.1b1]
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Anonymouscommented on 25 Aug 2004
The 3.2 beta should get everything going into the Library folder!
Anonymousreviewed on 22 Aug 2004
Unable to review the so called Mac OS X native beta on Mac OS 10.3.5 because "Classic cannot find a Mac OS 9 system folder on the startup disk to use".
I haven't seen such a dialog for more than two years... I would definitely not call this OS X native.
Please remove all references to Classic from your application.
[Version 3.0]
Anonymousreviewed on 21 May 2003
Unstuffing requires StuffIt Expander 5.5 or EARLIER.
[Version 2.4]
1 Reply
Anonymouscommented on 22 Aug 2004
Up-to-date versions of StuffIt Expander will work for Ver. 3
Anonymousreviewed on 24 Feb 2003
Nice idea if it worked, unfortantly it doesn't run on a G4 iMac
[Version 2.4]
Anonymousreviewed on 21 Feb 2003
The downloaded .hqx file will not unstuff. Tried downloading thru MacUpdate and from the home page.
[Version 2.4]
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Patent Grabber makes it easy to download U.S. patents and PCT published applications for free from public patent archives. Instead of going to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office or European Patent Office web site and loading and printing patent or application pages one at a time with your web browser, you simply give Patent Grabber a list of patents or PCT applications and click "Get Patents." Patent Grabber then downloads every page of all the patents or applications to your Mac while you do something else. And once the patents are downloaded, they are yours to keep and print from Patent Grabber's special Library folder at any time.
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There is also a freeware app called Patent Downloader 3.2 (http://www.oneriver.jp/download/PatentDownloader.zip) that can search for EU, US and Japanese patents.
However, if you have a list of patents that you wish to download (I once downloaded 1800 patents with a single click), then you need Patent Grabber. Plus, there are all the other features of Patent Grabber such as the bibliographic spreadsheet creator and INPADOC legal status summaries.
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Anonymous reviewed on 20 Jul 2005
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Anonymous reviewed on 23 Aug 2004
But WHERE are they going???
On the desktop no "Library" folder is created. When I put the application in the Applications folder, a "Library" folder is created but it stays empty! WHERE are you putting the patents I downloaded?
OS X 10.3.5
Anonymous reviewed on 22 Aug 2004
I haven't seen such a dialog for more than two years... I would definitely not call this OS X native.
Please remove all references to Classic from your application.
Anonymous reviewed on 21 May 2003
Anonymous reviewed on 24 Feb 2003
Anonymous reviewed on 21 Feb 2003