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Google Patent Search (Beta Version)
The Official Google Blog just announced the release of the beta version of Google Patent Search, which permits the user "to search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus". This is a very useful new development, made possible by the fact that patent information is public domain and can be accessed by anyone.
What Google has done is described at the Google Patent Search FAQ:
Q. How does it work?
A. Using the same technology that powers Google Book Search, Google has converted the entire image database of U.S. patents into a format that’s easy to search. You can search the full text of U.S. patents from the Google Patent Search homepage, or visit the Advanced Patent Search page to search by criteria like patent number, inventor, and filing date.
See also
Patently-O
SearchEngineLand.com (with a list of papers about patent search at the end)
Patent Prospector
CNET News.com
Red Herring
Monkinetic
InternetNews.com
Google Patent Search (Beta Version)
The Official Google Blog just announced the release of the beta version of Google Patent Search, which permits the user "to search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus". This is a very useful new development, made possible by the fact that patent information is public domain and can be accessed by anyone.
What Google has done is described at the Google Patent Search FAQ:
Q. How does it work?
A. Using the same technology that powers Google Book Search, Google has converted the entire image database of U.S. patents into a format that’s easy to search. You can search the full text of U.S. patents from the Google Patent Search homepage, or visit the Advanced Patent Search page to search by criteria like patent number, inventor, and filing date.
See also
Patently-O
SearchEngineLand.com (with a list of papers about patent search at the end)
Patent Prospector
CNET News.com
Red Herring
Monkinetic
InternetNews.com






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