Increase your patent efficiency
Search Patents Smarter and Faster
Petapator is designed for USPTO users to enable smarter and faster online patent searches. With user friendly Visualization Tools and built-in Analytics Tools, Petapator increases your patent search efficiency and allow you to easily perform insightful analysis.
Website: http://www.petapator.com
Blog: http://www.petapator.com/blog
Link to patents: https://www.patentbell.com/patent/
About Petapator
Petapator is a fork of Aspator, the well-known Firefox patent search tool, from the same developer. For further information of Aspator, please visit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3142/
Petapator helps you search and read patents and patent applications from USPTO (http://patft.uspto.gov) quicker and more efficient. Bring all patent information to one page and save patent search results.
Petapator is designed for engineers, scientists, patent agents, patent attorneys, and patent executives who need to search patents regularly. There is no more need to open one tab for one patent or click the mouse multiple times before reaching the patent information you need.
Link to Petapator: http://www.petapator.com.
A brief guide on using Petapator can be viewed at http://www.scribd.com/doc/34464779/Improve-Patent-Search-Efficiency.
Features of Petapator:
1. Read searched patent abstracts, claims, drawings and bibliographies from USPTO.
2. View USPTO patent drawings directly. No need to install TIFF viewer.
3. Patent classification analyzer.
Version 10.3.0
-Updated for new USPTO website links
Version 10.2.1
-Faster images upload for all recent published applications
Version 10.2.0
-Faster images upload for all granted patent and earlier published applications
Version 10.1.0
-Faster images upload for design patent after D700,000
Version 10.1.0
-Faster images upload for patent after 10,000,000
Version 10.0.5
-Bug fix for patent landscape
Version 10.0.4
-Bug fix for longer patent number
-Introduce PatentBell and PatentDownload in the popup icon
Version 10.0.3
-Update patent landscape as a new server is being used
Version 10.0.2
-Patft1 server is down. Change to patft
Version 10.0.1
-Introducing Patent Landscape Beta
-Fixed Refine Search bug
Version 9.1.1
-Performance improvement
Version 9.0.4
-Performance improvement
Version 9.0.2
- New feature: download a PDF that contains the first page of publication of the selected patents / applications. This allows faster review of interested patents / applications.
Version 8.5.1
- bug fix for refined search in patent application
Version 8.5.1
- bug fix
Version 8.5
- Added Global Dossier for easier Public Pair viewing
- Added Gallery of Figures - a new way to view patent figures
- bug fix
Version 8.4.1
- bug fix
Version 8.4
- added a new feature, Gallery, to bring a new experience to see patent figures
Version 8.3
- added a button to toggle "elements in figures"
- added a button to monitor a query easier
- added claim format
- remove reference to PatentBell at the search page
Version 8.2
- added "elements in figures"
- added citing patents and cited by. The data is retrieved from Google Patents
Version 8.0.1
- improved user interface with classic feel
- now work with PatentScope of WIPO
Version 7.4.2
- on EPO's request, Petapator cannot work at Espacenet for now.
Version 7.4.1
- update PDF file downloading process
Version 7.3.0
- can now view large images automatically
Version 7.2.0:
- enhance classification for the analyzer
- add CSV file for information of the first 1000 patents
- bug fix for email
Version 7.1.4:
- bug fix for the analyzer
Version 7.1.3:
- New feature: citation analysis
Version 7.1.2:
- Fixed the email bug
- Enhanced the patent reading functions
Version 7.1.1:
- Change the number of patents/applications shown in the first page from 200 to 50 for stability issue
- Add quick patent search capability from PatentBell
Version 7.1.0:
- Many enhancements to make Petapator be compatible with updated USPTO webpages
- Improve performance
Version 7.0.2:
- bug fix for email and CSV export
Version 7.0.1:
- New features: (1) Find words/phrases in the search results (2) Patent information appears faster
- bug fix
Version 6.4.3:
- bug fix
Version 6.4.2:
- bug fix
Version 6.4.1:
- use Google Patent images in case USPTO image server is not working
Version 6.4:
- show the first 200 hits on the first page
- show patent specifications/descriptions
- improve analyzer bar charts
- improve analyzer user interface
Version 6.3.1:
- use a different word cloud engine to improve performance
- store display options
Version 6.3:
- bug fixed for printing
- improved performance
- consolidating data from Google Patents
Version 6.2.0.1:
- bugs fixed
Version 6.2.0:
- bugs fixed
- improved user-interface
Version 6.1.2:
- removed abstract for Google Patent Search
- improve performance
Version 6.1.1:
- added abstract for Google Patent Search
- improve performance
Version 6.1:
- added word cloud
- bug fixes
Version 6.0:
- major update of user-interface
- new analyzer engine
- more secured
Version 5.6.1:
- improved the UI of reading a single patent/application.
Version 5.6:
- a new user interface for reading a single patent/application with multiple highlighters and night-reading mode.
Version 5.5.8.3:
The URL of USPTO patent application image server has changed. Updated the code to reflect the changes.
Version 5.5.8:
Updated for USPTO new image server
Version 5.5.7:
Bug fix - fixed an installation bug under Chrome v24.
Version 5.5.4:
Bug fix - fixed broken code for Chrome running in Mac.
Version 5.5.3:
Bug fix - was unable to extract information from some patents.
Version 5.5.2:
Bug fix - fixed the duplicate assignment and patent family information.
Version 5.5.1:
Enhanced webpage download speed.
Version 5.5:
New Features -
a. Direct access to patent family information retrieved from Espacenet.
b. Direct access to USPTO Patent Assignment webpage.
c. Show citation of a patent.
d. Patent search query monitoring.
e. Patent and patent application status monitoring.
f. Enhanced user interface.
Version 5.0.5:
Bug fixes - naming convention
Version 5.0.4:
New Features -
a. Key Claim Words - identify most used words in claims for quick understanding of a patent
b. Hide / Show - hide the last column for easy printing
Version 5.0.3:
New Features -
a. Major rewrite for Chrome v.23
b. bigger diagrams
c. formatting of 1st claim
Bug fixes - many
Version 5.0.1:
New Features: quick review of patent for any webpage by clicking the Petapator button on the toolbar. Abstract, the first claim, inventors, assignee, and diagrams will be shown.
Version 4.3.3:
Bug Fixes: USPTO has changed its webpage slightly, update Petapator accordingly to resolve discrepancies.
Version 4.3.1:
New Features -
a. A button to link to a support forum
Bug Fixes -
a. Fix a bug at the diagram webpage that has prevented the conversion of tiff file.
Version 4.3:
New Features -
a. Better viewing for figures.
Version 4.2:
Bug fixes -
a. fixed bugs for patent applications
b. Google Patents is back. A new window will open instead as seems Google does not like being displayed in iframe.
Version 4.1:
Bug fixes - fixed bugs in 'Info' for patent applications
Version 4.0:
New feature - You can now view patent family information under "Info".
Bug fixes - fixed search records
Version 3.22:
New feature - You can now view the diagrams along the patent text at the patent page.
Bug fixes - a few, including the ability to save search records
