BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Convert RIS to Bibtex for Patent Entries

[sandra]

Hi all,

In doing both academic literature and patent reviews, what I found was that there's no tool out there that can easily convert formats exported from patent searches to a good bibtex entry. In fact, as those who use bibtex probably already know, there's no entry type for patents in standard bibtex styles. The best alternatives are to use @misc for standard bibtex style, or use IEEE's bst with @patent, or use biblatex which has @patent as a standard entry.

To address that issue, I made an online tool to convert patent information in the RIS format to Bibtex format for those three styles:
http://see-in.net/sandramau/bibpat.html

Feedback and suggestions appreciated.