These miscellaneous Perl scripts represent my latest hobby--using Perl to do mundane data gathering tasks that supervising attorneys in my summer law internships have asked me to perform.

• Last Week's Newly Issued Utah Patent and Trademarks: this collection of scripts scrapes information off the USPTO website and builds HTML and PDF report of the latest Utah Patents and Trademarks. Uses ImageMagick and HTMLDoc.
• findnoascii.pl: this script highlights potentially non ascii files in a large directory of files (since submitting non-ascii files to the patent office is a bad idea).
• easydir.pl: this script makes it easier to make a lay-person friendly printout of a large directory of files.
• trans.pl: this script is just one of many such scripts I've used to cut down the time it takes to convert information from a text document into a spreadsheet and vice versa.