[time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-06-30 Thread Mike Monett
The Google patent search is a very useful for studying GPS technology, precision oscillators, etc. It has been extremely reliable in the past, but today it started giving an error message after downloading only 5 patents. The error message is: Google Error Forbidden

Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-06-30 Thread Robert Atkinson
keep the bots out. Robert G8RPI. --- On Wed, 1/7/09, Mike Monett wrote: > From: Mike Monett > Subject: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken > To: time-nuts@febo.com > Date: Wednesday, 1 July, 2009, 2:27 AM >   The Google  patent  > search  > is   a   very  &

Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-07-01 Thread Mike Monett
>Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:24:38 + (GMT) >From: Robert Atkinson >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken >Hi Mike, > Try http://ep.espacenet.com/ It's an offical european site that > also searches US and World Patents. Very flexible se

Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-07-01 Thread Robert Atkinson
;KC=A1 (one of mine ;-) There is a bar above the view window with a "save full document" option. If you click on this it will ask you to decode a captcha before downloading the PDF. Regards, Robert Akinson --- On Wed, 1/7/09, Mike Monett wrote: > From: Mike Monett > Subject: R

Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-07-01 Thread Lux, James P
http://www.uspto.gov has a pretty good search engine for US patents (with images, if you load the AlternaTiff plugin) > >   > Try http://ep.espacenet.com/  It's an offical  european  > site that > >   > also searches  US and World Patents. Very flexible  > search options > >   > and no registra

Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-07-01 Thread Mike Monett
> Hi, I don't think its a version problem. When you have the patent > displayed (View original document tab) you only see one page at a > time. see > http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?FT=D&date=20040226&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&CC=US&NR=2004036036A1&KC=A1

Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-07-02 Thread John Murphy
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:55:36 -0300, Mike Monett wrote: > I'm hoping a lot of these problems will soon go away. I have WinXP > SP3 running in VirtualBox 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.04, and it works great. > But it doesn't like running my old DOS programs. The screen update > is so painfully slow

Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken

2009-07-03 Thread Mike Monett
> On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:55:36 -0300, Mike Monett wrote: >> I'm hoping a lot of these problems will soon go away. I have >> WinXP SP3 running in VirtualBox 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.04, and it works >> great. >> But it doesn't like running my old DOS programs. The screen >> update i