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Unique software tool speeds up and enhances the search for prior art
Reduce the time, tedium and expense of retrieving and reviewing patent prior art
The Telaric patent retriever/scanner performs three valuable functions:
- Automates the retrieval of patents and patent applications from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
- Converts retrieved patents into two useable and practical formats: Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer browser format with drawings.
- Facilitates rapid patent review and evaluation by automatically scanning retrieved patents to locate and highlight selected keywords and phrases.
Thursday
3:50 PM
Dear Prior Art Searcher:
My name is Carlos de la Huerga and I’ve been involved in the patent process for over 25 years.
As you and I both know, prior art searching is an essential step in obtaining a great patent.
But what a time-consuming, tedious and expensive process!
I couldn’t even start to count the hours I’ve spent over the years reading through issued patents, published patent applications, journal articles and Internet search “hits”.
But I’ve learned that shortchanging this process can result in even more problems – such as a rejected patent when it’s reviewed by the patent office or an inability to enforce an issued patent at some point in the future against an infringer.
My software assists with prior art searching
It’s no secret that one of the best sources of prior art is the collection of United States patents freely available and searchable at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
However, I’m sure your experience with this source has been similar to mine – HUGELY burdensome.
It used to just drive me crazy to only be able to access patents individually and then have to click through each patent one page at a time to review the drawings.
But the real burden was in carefully reading through the number of patents that constituted a comprehensive prior art search.
As we all know, only a few patents are relevant to any given search but doing the work to find those few is extremely time-consuming and tedious. In fact, with large searches and/or long patents, I found the task to be almost impossible to do well.
Well, that’s why I developed the Telaric patent retriever/scanner software – to have a tool I could use to:
- Automate the retrieval of patents and patent applications (both text and images) from the USPTO;
- Convert the retrieved patents into practical and useable formats that are easy to print, search on and email to others;
- Find and highlight key words and phrases so I could quickly and efficiently review the retrieved patents for relevance.
Once I completed the software, I found that using it resulted in six valuable benefits
For me, it:
- Simplified the process of retrieving patents and patent applications from the USPTO (as both text and images) – eliminating the requirement of accessing patents one-at-a-time and reviewing/printing patent images a page at a time.
- Provided patent text in a form (MS Word document) that I could scan, store, print and email and patent images in a single HTML file that I could print or convert to an Adobe PDF (requires a PDF writer).
- Provided a powerful tool to scan patent text and easily and quickly locate those patents that were most relevant to a search – so I could then confidently decide which to discard and which to analyze further.
- Reduced the time required to review patents that had little relevance to a search – thus allowing me to concentrate my reading on those patents that were most relevant.
- Enhanced the thoroughness of my patent review, thus minimizing my risk of missing important prior art..
- Automated the retrieval of additional patents related to the most relevant patents found.
The end result was a significant reduction in the time, tedium and expense of retrieving and reviewing patents and a dramatic improvement in the quality of my prior art searching.
Well with this positive experience, I decided back in 2004 to commercialize this little gem of a program. So now it’s available to folks like you.
Useful for multiple purposes – by the patent attorney, researcher or inventor
As you’d expect, the Telaric patent retriever/scanner is best used before a patent is applied for. However, it can also can be used for identifying prior art to invalidate an issued patent or as a tool to be used to keep abreast of new technologies disclosed as U.S. patents and applications.
Therefore, patent attorney, researchers and inventors will all find this software extremely useful in making the time spent reviewing patents and patent applications as productive as possible.
But you shouldn’t take my word for it. Instead, you should try it yourself by taking advantage of our 20-day FREE trial. You can download the software immediately and have it on your computer within a couple minutes.
Then, for 20 days use it to retrieve patents from the USPTO and put them in a form that is easy to print, search on and email to others. But, more importantly, spend this free trial time discovering how much time you save by scanning the retrieved patents for keywords and phrases to determine relevance. You’ll be amazed at the improvement in your prior art search productivity by using this tool.
Best Regards,
Carlos de la Huerga
Fellow Prior Art Searcher
P.S. I truly believe that the Telaric patent retriever/scanner software will dramatically improve the productivity of your prior art searching. I encourage you to take advantage of our 20-day FREE trial.
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