Patdek has been developing a new way to make PDF documents more useful - the anchored snippet. Gone are the days of highlighting and referring to excerpts in a PDF. You can now show anyone precisely in a PDF what's important. We call it the anchored snippet.
For a typical PDF, such as a patent, file history, or a PTAB Institution Decision, important parts of the document can be highlighted. Now imagine that you highlighted five different PDFs a month ago. You can't remember which folder the documents are in, and you need to send some of the highlighted information to a client or colleague.
The anchored snippet solves this precise problem. By using a common tag, a user can quickly scan through a grouped list of snippets. By clicking any snippet, the user jumps right to the highlighted page in the document. Moving back to a list view, you can share the group of snippets with other people in one action. The recipient can see the snippets and review just the snippets or jump into any of the documents for a more thorough review.
Think about the task of sending an email of five 50+ page PDFs. How would you explain to the recipient what pages to review that have highlighted passages. Quite cumbersome. Anchored snippets present the precise location of the important information -- the exact page. And you don't even have to scan through a document if the snippet answers the question.
Now merge those tools with access to over 20TB of PTO information - that's Patdek.
Partner, Patent Law
