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DESCRIPTION
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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WHAT'S NEW
Version 5.6.2:
  • 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.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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Developer:Bruce Pokras
Downloads:6,666
  - Version d/l:38
Business:Applications
License:Shareware
Date:27 Nov 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$25.00
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Aug 3 2009

NASTYTOE  Yeah it is kinda ugly. How is this any better than Googles patent system?  
(Version 5.6)

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Nov 9 2007

TRENTI  Way to go. looks like being stuck in the 80's and i couldn't do a search for european patents. no thanks.  
(Version 5.2)

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Jul 20 2005

ANONYMOUS  this would be nice flavoured in aqua  
(Version 3.6.1)

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Jan 2 2006

DON OSHEA  Take a look at Pronto Patent for clean interface that works seamlessly with OS X. It costs $29, but the document is a single .pdf document.  
(Version 4.0)

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Apr 17 2005
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ANONYMOUS  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)

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Aug 23 2004

HARALD  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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Aug 25 2004

ANONYMOUS  The 3.2 beta should get everything going into the Library folder!  
(Version 3.2b1)

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Aug 22 2004

HARALD  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)

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Jan 8 2004
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H. MYLER  Forget OS X--works only partially, I could never get the PDF's to come down. Only runs under Classic mode--with a cheesy interface.  
(Version 2.4)

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May 21 2003

ANONYMOUS  Unstuffing requires StuffIt Expander 5.5 or EARLIER.  
(Version 2.4)

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Aug 22 2004

ANONYMOUS  Up-to-date versions of StuffIt Expander will work for Ver. 3  
(Version 3.0)

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Feb 24 2003
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IN LALA LAND  Nice idea if it worked, unfortantly it doesn't run on a G4 iMac  
(Version 2.4)

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Feb 21 2003

ANONYMOUS  The downloaded .hqx file will not unstuff. Tried downloading thru MacUpdate and from the home page.  
(Version 2.4)

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