PDF Download of patents

A blog has published the list of websites and software’s for downloading the patent copies freely and also on subscription basis.
a.   http://www.pat2pdf.com.  PDF.  Coverage:  US and European patents, US patent applications.  Cost:  varies, but all patent documents below USPN 1,000,000 are free.
b.   http://www.pat2pdf.org.  PDF.  Coverage:  All issued US Patents.  Search interface:  patent number.  Can search [...]

Renewable alternative to petroleum-derived isoprene

The people are looking for greener alternatives of chemical products and processes. In this regard the discovery of isoprene production by bacteria will help make tires greener.
A researcher at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs was granted a patent for a new process to make a key ingredient in synthetic rubber from [...]

USPTO Revision of Patent Fees for Fiscal Year 2009

The report is reproduced here from USPTO website.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is adjusting certain patent fee amounts for fiscal year 2009 to reflect fluctuations in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The patent statute provides for the annual CPI adjustment of patent fees set by statute to recover the higher costs associated [...]

Indian Patent full text

India is one of the leading destinations for business hubs. A lot of companies are protecting their Intellectual Property (patent) in India.  Indian Patent Office has made the Patent Database public to view the Patents. The searching of Indian Patents is very restrictive as I have posted about it in another post.  The patent office [...]

GoPubMed

GoPubMed is an alternative website for mining PubMed database. The Gene Ontology (GO) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) serve as “Table of contents” in order to structure the millions of articles of the MEDLINE data base.
GoPubMed is Web 2.0 search engines. The system was developed at the Technical University of Dresden by Michael Schroeder [...]

Hubmed

Hubmed is an alternative website for mining PubMed database. It’s worth to try once. The features of the databases are as follows:

Daily updates of search results via web feeds.

Quick access to searches with a Firefox search plugin or a HubMed bookmarklet (drag to your browser’s bookmarks toolbar).

Export citations in RIS, BibTeX, RDF and MODS formats, [...]

PubMed Reader

PubMed Reader is an alternative website for mining PubMed database. It’s worth to try once. The features of the databases are as follows:

Access to full text articles (New!)

Instant access to PubMed information

User-defined display and information

Multiple export functions for different user needs

Integrates easily into user’s daily workflow

Access from website or from [...]

eTBLAST a PubMed alternative

eTBLAST  is an alternative website for mining PubMed database. It’s worth to try once. The features of the databases are as follows:

eTBLAST sorts our results by relevance, while PubMed sorts by date.

eTBLAST save you the time and effort of creating a complicated query.

eTBLAST let you iterate your search over several good papers to [...]