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Automagically put patent title in tooltip for links to individual patents on Google Patents

2012-09-06T15:33:11Z

So it seems we will standardize on linking to Google Patents from mentions of patent numbers / codes / IDs (what are these things generally called by the way?)

It would be a neat and simple little feature to add then for the system to look up the referenced patent, extract the title, and it it to the HTML using the title attribute. I'm assuming you're already using a Google Patent API which would neatly provide this info.

Answer by badp for Automagically put patent title in tooltip for links to individual patents on Google Patents

2012-09-06T19:53:51Z

I would rather have the patent showcased in the sidebar — either under Linked, or in its own shiny box.

Answer by user96 for Automagically put patent title in tooltip for links to individual patents on Google Patents

2012-09-07T15:04:28Z

The full text of a patent is available by typing in the number at http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm. The web page produced there includes quite a bit of other information but does not include Figures.

PDFs of patents, showing the published patent formatted in two columns per page and showing Figures (or Drawing Sheets), are available at http://www.pat2pdf.org. These are not searchable PDFs.

There are also commercial sources such as Thompson-Reuters that will provide searchable PDFs of published patents or patent applications.