RE: patent images on the USPTO web server -Reply

Elliott, Christopher M (ElliotCM@bp.com)
Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:23:23 +0100

I too had not been able to view the TIFF images from the USPTO site until
now using MS-IE 4. However I followed Roy's advice and the downloaded TIFF
viewer now works perfectly. Many thanks. I did however on installation have
to tick the check-box which refers to modifying the Windows Registry
entries. Without that the plugin was not recognised by my browser when I
restarted it.

Best regards

Chris M Elliott

Patents and Agreements
BP Amoco plc
Chertsey Road
Sunbury-on-Thames
Middlesex
TW16 7LN
UK

Tel: +44 1932 763208
Fax: +44 1932 762388
Email: elliotcm@bp.com

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> From: Roy Zimmermann[SMTP:roy.zimmermann@medtronic.com]
> Sent: 03 June 1999 17:51
> To: piug-l@derwent.tecc.co.uk; jhack@erenj.com
> Subject: patent images on the USPTO web server -Reply
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> The WANGIMG viewer does work fine for multipage TIFF, for example, it
> was auto-associated with that format when I first received & tried to
> open a multipage TIFF patent file sent by Direct Patent. But that
> viewer didn't appear to function within a Web browser, so I downloaded &
> installed the recommended TIFF viewer from the PTO site. I just
> revisited the PTO site to confirm availability & response time was very
> slow to get to the download page. Here's the plugin direct from its
> producer:
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> http://www.mieweb.com/alternatiff/
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> The download is only about 180K and the install ran flawlessly for
> self-association as a browser plugin. Thereafter, whenever I've clicked
> an image link from the PTO's fulltext records, the images have opened
> readily.
>
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>
> Roy Zimmermann
> Patent Information Specialist
> 612-514-3304
> roy.zimmermann@medtronic.com
>
> >>> John Hack <jhack@erenj.com> 06/03/99 09:46am >>>
>
> I am having trouble viewing patent images (actually, I can't view them
> at
> all) on the USPTO web server, even though I have a properly plugged-in
> TIFF
> viewer which supports Group 4 compression, as the USPTO recommends. To
> quote:
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> "The TIFF flavor used by PTO and other
> countries' intellectual property offices is international standard CCITT
>
> Group 4 (G4) compression. Displaying them requires either a TIFF G4
> plug-in
> for your
> browser, or a properly installed and configured application to which
> your
> browser sends G4 TIFF images for display. Note that relatively few image
>
> viewers and
> plug-ins handle G4 compression."
>
> I am surprised by the claim that not many viewers handle G4 when the
> standard WANGIMG viewer, installed with most WIN95 loads, supports this.
>
> What am I missing here?
>
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> John Hack
> Information Research & Analysis
> Exxon Research & Engineering Company
> Route 22 East
> Annandale, NJ 08801
>
> Phone: (908) 730-3396 Fax: (908) 730-3230
> Email: jhack@erenj.com
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