I upgraded patents | oncloud8. The look and feel is much improved, abstract fetching is at least twice as fast, and I dropped the price for the PDF copy from $0.88 to $0.49. Looking up the abstract is free of course. Woo woo!
There are several fetch box beta features which are undocumented. For instance, instead of entering "US5000000", you can get away with "U.S. patent number 5,000,000". This makes cut and pasting numbers much easier. The key is to make sure that the entry either starts with the country code or just the number (if it is US). So "5,000,000" will give you "US5000000". It can also handle non-newline delimited phrases, e.g., "US 5,000,000, US 5,000,001 and US 5,000,002".
Posted by torque at June 9, 2004 12:34 AM | TrackBack