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The European Patent Office announced that in the first half of 2005 the number of unique users accessing esp@cenet per week reached 65,000; more than 11 million PDF page downloads per week was also recorded during the same time period.Recent … Continue reading →

A team of researchers at the University of Michigan’s School of Information are working with IBM scientists to develop new tools for searching and analyzing patent data. The NSF-funded project will use natural language search technology developed at the IBM … Continue reading →

Full document downloading and printing is now available in espacenet. However, users must first type in a 5-8 digit alphanumeric code in order to begin the download. These alphanumeric codes are intended to thwart spiders and other software that download … Continue reading →

The USPTO has published an executive summary of a new project that aims to create approximately 1,300 “search templates” for each of the ~600 classified areas of science and technology found in the Manual of Classification. According to the notice … Continue reading →