New URL / Layout for Google Patents

bisoldi · July 23, 2015

The Google Patents translator only recognizes patents served up under https://www.google.com/patents, however Google also has https://patents.google.com, which I believe to be the newer site design, though the translator does not work for it. It's the same data, however patents.google.com wraps the layout in additional functionality and IMO lays out the patent in a cleaner (though similar) format.

E.g. https://patents.google.com/patent/US7853881B1/en?q=networks

adamsmith · July 23, 2015

ticket created here: https://github.com/zotero/translators/issues/922
no promises on when someone is going to get to it, but generally google patents is fairly high priority.

dmitriyc · December 21, 2015

It seems Google has downgraded the old patent search engine (to a very basic layout), so updating the translator for patents.google.com is much more important now. I added a note to the GitHub ticket.

MC5kotj · January 30, 2018

Any luck with the new translator for Google Patents?

adamsmith · January 30, 2018

I'm afraid not -- we spent some time on it when this came up and couldn't get it to work. We can take another look, but I'm currently not optimistic

dclunie · February 23, 2018

The old patent pages (https://www.google.com/patents/US7853881B1) now seem redirect to the new format pages (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7853881B1) and so Zotero fails miserably. e.g., does not capture inventors, patent number, etc.)

Gurdas_Sandhu · February 23, 2018

I can confirm the translator is failing to get most any metadata from the new patent site.

zuphilip · March 4, 2018

This is now fixed — thanks for reporting. Your Zotero Connector should auto-update within 24 hours, or you can update manually by clicking Update Translators in the Advanced pane of the Zotero Connector preferences.

Any further problems let us know & thanks for reporting.

jahooper · March 8, 2018

Citing from patents.google.com appears to work now (thanks!), except that abstracts aren't making it into Zotero for newly cited patents. Is this an easy fix?

zuphilip · March 8, 2018

For the page mentioned above, there is an abstract saved. Any other url?

jahooper · March 8, 2018

The abstract does not save for me for the patent noted above, or these:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160342821/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7843315/en

Am using current version, tried both Firefox and Chrome connector

Not sure will help but submitted debug id D1874664064

zuphilip · March 12, 2018

Okay, the translator is updated and the abstract should work better now.

jahooper · May 9, 2018

FYI - while this appeared to be working for awhile I believe the translator is having some issues now. Many fields incl. Patent number, Filing date, Assignee etc. are not being parsed properly. Also, less of an issue but the 'classifications' note is not appearing as it was.

See e.g.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7775940B2/en

zuphilip · May 13, 2018

Okay, they website structure slightly changed such that the detection did not work anymore. Then only Embedded translator was offered with a lot of missing fields. The Google Patents translator is now updated again and this should work as before.

jahooper · May 16, 2018

Thank you!

hpxing · September 24, 2018

when the url is the multiple， the full text pdf is not attached
like the test case
"type": "web",
"url": "https://patents.google.com/?q=book&oq=book",
"items": "multiple"