INCOM IPS GmbH, Bonn offers with GetPat@Web a new software solution for the direct access to the INPADOC patent family and legal status data of more than 65 Patent Offices worldwide. Bibliographic data and the complete document in PDF-Format can be automatically downloaded as well. The PFS data brings together patent publications with similar claims from a wide range of countries. The publications are sorted into "families", so that the user can find out in what countries a patent for a given invention has been applied for or granted. The PRS data contains the legal status which shows whether a particular patent is still valid or has expired. This facilitates the exploitation of inventions which are no longer protected and ensures that users do not pay unnecessary licence fees for lapsed patents. GetPat@Web uses the data base of the European Patent Office. The availability and the up-to-dateness of the data corresponds to the high quality standard of the office.

	Standalone program for Microsoft Windows platforms with english or german user interface
	Intuitive user-friendly graphical user interface
	Download of patent family data, bibliographic data and legal status as well as complete patent documents in a simple and easy way
	Optional download of all or selected members of a patent family
	Download formats PDF for complete document and HTML for bibliographic and legal data
	Retrieved PDF documents contain bookmarks for subdocuments (bibliographic data, description, drawings, claims, search report)
	Bibliographic and legal data is retrieved via the World Patent Database of the European Patent Office
	Support for manual input or file import of patent, priority and application number lists
	Structured management of patent, priority and application numbers in requests
	Tree view with history of requests which provides an easy way of navigation through all requested patent, priority and application numbers
	Availability check as separate step preceding the download. This also provides information about patent family members
	Filters for bibliographic data, legal status and complete patent documents to reduce the download to the essential information
	Logging of all downloads (displayed in a log view and also stored as log file)
	Creation of an inhouse archive of the downloaded documents
	Free of charge software and software updates, only the download of documents will be charged
	Free of charge evaluation period

We cordially invite you to test GetPat@Web free of charge and without obligation. To download the GetPat@Web setup program go to: http://www.incom-ips.com/getpat-at-web-download.html

There are three main views in GetPat@Web which reflect the three download steps: The New, the Available, and the Downloads view.

The New view The New view is used to create a list of document numbers. This can be done by simply typing the desired document numbers into the empty table of the New view. As an alternative, it is also possible to import a list of document numbers from a file. In addition, the table of the New view allows to set the type of selected document numbers to "Patent Number", "Application Number", or "Priority Number".

The Available view The Available view shown below offers an availability check of the document numbers of a request. Family members are displayed indented as a result of the availability check. The blue check boxes indicate which document types (bibliographic data, legal status, complete document) are available for download (grey check boxes indicate document types which are not available for the given document number). As soon as the availability check has been finished, the document type check boxes (Biblio, Legal, P-Doc) can be set or cleared individually in order to control what is downloaded in the next step. The download of the chosen documents can then be started with the Start download button.

The Downloads view The Downloads view shows the download progress and is used for opening already downloaded documents by just clicking the according document icons in the table. The Requests view at the left side of the window can be used for navigation. The icons of the members of a request reflect their meaning, i.e. patent numbers are shown with a blue bullet, priority numbers are displayed with a red bullet and application numbers are shown with a black bullet.

This section displays examples of downloaded documents. Shown below is a downloaded complete patent in PDF format with bookmarks. Beneath are shown examples of the corresponding downloaded bibliographic data document and of the legal status document.

Document: Complete patent specification

We cordially invite you to test GetPat@Web free of charge and without obligation. To download the GetPat@Web setup program go to: http://www.incom-ips.com/getpat-at-web-download.html

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