Hello All,
Just FYI. Recently I asked how to get to the TIFF files in US patents. Jim and others showed how to do that. However, since my PCs are quite restricitve with respect to Active-X and stuff I had to look further and found something:
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This downloaded one patent that I needed, nicely tucked into one big PDF file. Body, cover, pictures and all. Sweet.
There is a limited free service and also a paid service, the latter will allow PDF access to foreign patents. The free service is supposed to be slower but my download came across the broadband connection in less than one minute.
Regards, Joerg
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