Hi Mike, Try http://ep.espacenet.com/ It's an offical european site that also searches US and World Patents. Very flexible search options and no registration required. You do have to type in the code from a graphic image if you want to download a full PDF. That is a small price to pay to keep the bots out.
Robert G8RPI. --- On Wed, 1/7/09, Mike Monett <xde-l...@myamail.com> wrote: > From: Mike Monett <xde-l...@myamail.com> > 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 > 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 Your client does not have permission to > get URL > > /patents/download/xxx.pdf?id=yyyy from this server. > > Rebooting and clearing the cookies didn't help. I > have a static IP, > so Google knows when I am trying to download a > patent, and it gives > this error message instead. > > There are a few other free patent services, but they > require logging > on, they aren't as easy to use, > and they don't have the search > options that google has. They > also give larger pdf files than > google. For example, here is US patent > #6134065 by an old friend, > Steve Brittenham, who used to work at HP Boisie: > > Service Bytes > > FreePatent : 80,794 > Wikipatent : 543,465 > Google : 66,014 > > The urls are > > http://www.freepatentsonline.com/ > http://www.wikipatents.com/ > > Another service I often use is > www.pat2pdf.org, but it seems to be > offline today. > > So the best option is still google, but how to get > around the static > ip problem? > > The solution is a free proxy. There are many > on the web - this one > works fine: > > http://www.freeproxysite.com/ > > I used the "TOP 10 proxies by clicks", and selected > German-Proxy.de > > From there, I went to > > http://www.google.com/advanced_patent_search?hl=en&num=30 > > entered a patent number, and downloaded it with no > problems. > > I don't know what is causing the problem at google, > but this appears > to solve it. If you run into this and find it starts > giving problems > again, just select another proxy and continue > working! > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.