[sdiy] [OT] Patent Websites

[John Luciani]

Thanks Achim and Magnus.

I happened to try http://gb.espacenet.com first, typed in the Japanese
patent number,
five results where returned and one of them was the correct the
patent!!! Took 20 seconds.

I have bookmarked both sites. Thanks again.

(* jcl *)

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Magnus Danielson
<magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
> John Luciani wrote:
>>
>> Anyone know of a site like freepatents.com that has english translations
>> of Japanese patents?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> (* jcl *)
>>
>
> http://gb.espacenet.com
>
> If it has an english variant (WO, GB, US) you will find it there. You can
> download the full patents as PDF.
>
> Makes most other online sites meaningless.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>



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