Google Google-izes Patent Searching
It would appear I’m two days late reporting this, which in the blogosphere makes it really old news, but I thought it to be relevant because I’ve been utilizing patent searches quite a bit lately. I can’t tell you why, that would be just silly, but I’ve been hunting around the USPTO quite a bit and found the following Google release pretty interesting.
They’ll decided to help inventors and investors really, search patents the Google way. Easy.
They now offer a full text patent search where they’ve indexed all that the USPTO has to offer.
Now if you’ve ever done a patent search before you’ll know that getting the full-text, with images is a task. They have their own viewer which if you can get it to work you should patent the method and license it to the USPTO. I choose the method of searching patents through the USPTO site, their search isn’t all that bad, and then getting the patent as a PDF from Free Patents Online, whose search stinks but they’ve got images and text.
It’s a painful process and one that I hope I’ll never have to go through now that Google has jumped into the patent realm.
Comments
Comment from Erik
Time: December 19, 2006, 9:17 pm
yeah it’s pretty cool.
I haven’t used it too much but the amount i did, I found it much easier than my previous method
Comment from Clone Golf Clubs
Time: December 19, 2006, 8:17 pm
Very cool technology I must say. I types in the word wagon and cheese and actually found results…kinda of neat.