Patent related greasemonkey scripts

April 8, 2006 on 3:22 pm | In Tech Tips, USPTO, Web/Tech |

Surfing the ‘net earlier I stumbled on a Greasemonkey script called PatentHelper. PatentHelper:

  • adds link from USPTO patent documents to the corresponding document on EPO, and vice versa.
  • Adds links to the PDF’s (from EPO’s site)
  • It adds EPO-links to all references on USPTO’s pages and fetches the titles of the USPTO references.
  • Hyperlinks US patent numbers found on EPO’s pages, for instance on the description page
  • Hyperlinks patent numbers in “also published as” box on EPO, and in other places that use the same syntax.
  • Hyperlinks inventor names and applicant names to EPO searches.
  • Tips: EPO’s site has PDFs, good classification links and nice layout. USPTO’s site has good reference lists and referenced-by search.

An image (click to make bigger) showing it in action (upper left hand corner):

Greasemonkey

Interesting! Anyone know of any other IP related Greasemonkey scripts?

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3 Comments

  1. The greasemonkey script you give doesn’t work.
    Is the URL wrong?http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/3579

    Comment by stanton — April 8, 2006 #

  2. While not a Greasemonkey script, if you are using Firefox anyway, you may find the following search plugins useful:

    http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=USPTO&submitform=Search

    I have some search plugins that I wrote myself, but I am not sure if I can release them publicly.

    Comment by Larry Kasoff — April 9, 2006 #

  3. Now it’s ok, thanks.
    And thank the plugins Larry Kasoff recommend.

    Comment by Stanton — April 10, 2006 #

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