Patent Grabber download U.S. patents in either Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) or TIFF format, makes it easy to download U.S. patents and published applications, European patents and published applications, PCT published applications, and patent documents from many other countries and patent-issuing organizations for free from public patent archives:
1. Download multiple patents or applications with a single click
2. Optionally download the patent or software text (if made available by the USPTO or EPO)
3. Ver. 5.x combines all patent pages into a single PDF on Mac OS X (Tiger or later) and Windows (2000 and later)
* Windows requires two free helper applications (see Quick Start or full instructions for details)
* The Mac Classic version downloads the pages of each patent into their own folder (international document downloading not implemented yet)
4. Download every page or just the pages of selected sections (e.g., just the first page and claims)
5. Create a spreadsheet that contains bibliographic information for multiple U.S. patents (optional family identifier, patent number, issue date, title, filing date, software number, inventor(s), assignee, abstract, foreign priority, US class, international class, legal representative, field of search, cited U.S. patents)
6. Download the INPADOC international legal status information for any number of patents or applications with a single click.
7. Mac OS X Ver. 5.x can print muliple selected patents and applications with a single click

Patent Grabber is initially in a free Evaluation Mode (limited to downloading the first five pages of multiple patents or a single INPADOC legal status summary).

U.S. Patent Searching:
Three search interfaces for U.S. patents (Quick, Advanced and Issuance) and published applications (Quick, Advanced and Publication) are provided that are easier-to-use versions of the USPTOs "Quick" and "Advanced" searching systems.

You can insert search field codes into your query using a dropdown list, and a special Date Interface guides you through the process of entering dates and date ranges in the proper USPTO format. A dropdown list of countries will assist you in finding the correct two-letter code when you choose a search field that requires the entry of a Country Code.

The INPADOC family information tells you about patents and applications in the U.S. and many other countries that are in some way related to a patent or software that is in your search results. The data is made available by the European Patent Office. The list of family information may be printed or saved in tab-delimited format.

Patent Grabber for Windows requires a PC running Windows, plus the free PDFTK.exe and C42PDF.exe helper applications.

Limitations:
* only the first 5 pages of the patent are shown

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $30.00, you can free download and get a free trial.