Getting patent documents from countries other than the U.S.A.

[Mark Hammer]

I've been having fun this morning looking up patents for effects using http://ep.espacenet.com/search97cgi/s97_cgi.exe?Action=FormGen&Template=ep/en/advanced.hts

Unfortunately, if I attempt to search for any of those many tasty offering I find from the good folks in Japan (Roland, Yamaha, Casio, Korg, etc.), using http://www.pat2pdf.org/  I won't find anything since it only searches US patents.

So how does one make good use of the non-American patent numbers from espacenet?

[puretube]

that`s how patent lawyers get rich - just spending time -
(esp., when they use a dial-up modem...)

[Mark Hammer]

Not to take anything away from American patents, but I'd like to be inspired on an international scale! 

[puretube]

type: "Casio", "Korg", "Kawai", or "Hamamatsu" into the: "applicant" field... ,
or: "Adachi", "Takada", "Kakehashi" in the "inventor" field
(the latter = Mr. Roland/Boss himself...)


see you next month 


no - all fun aside: the problem is,
that "espacenet" only lets you save the files page for page...

so check the US pendant file#, and get the whole pdf thru: http://www.pat2pdf.org/
there`s an US-patent# for 99.9%  of them.

have fun & take your time!


AHH - BTW: 
if Z.VEX happens to read this thread:
you have posted a great story about the life of Schroeder (Mr. Reverb) a while ago
(`t was about the longest post ever, here...);
do you happen to have a similar treatise about Harald Bode ?
(he worked with/for Estey/Wurlitzer/Moog...).

[TELEFUNKON]

here`s the patent to the analog pitcher on your site, so it seems:
http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=JP55017875&F=0