Good News - Patent Images Now in PDF Format!

Viewing, printing, downloading, and emailing sections of patents from the USPTO website just became easier. Images of U.S. patents in the Patents Full-Text database (PatFT) and U.S. published patent applications in the Applications Full-Text database (AppFT) on the USPTO website are now in PDF format. When you click the “Images” button above the html version of a patent or published patent application, the patent will appear in PDF, not TIFF format. You no longer have to download a TIFF plug-in to see the images.