googleblog.blogspot.com — Today, we're excited to be releasing the beta version of Google Patent Search, which makes it easy to search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you. Start your exploration at www.google.com/patents or visit the Advanced Patent Search page to search by criteria, including patent number, inventor, and filing date.
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listrophyDec 14, 2006
What's this? The TIFFs from the uspto have been converted by google to PNG?Best. Innovation. Ever.And anyone who has ever done patent searches before knows exactly what I'm talking about.
irritatedjonesDec 14, 2006
Paranoid. That's a normal way of thinking when you are dealing with a new idea that possibly could make you millions of dollars. I work in the medical field and have worked on a few patents, and my patent attorney is even more paranoid then I am. It's kind of sad but I partially agree with those that are saying it is a great way for google to find out about an up and coming start up company. However, from what I can tell this is a million times easier to use the uspto.gov.Personally, I think the entire patent process should be overhauled.
jonashwingDec 14, 2006
and you shall get buried just like he did
hokkosDec 14, 2006
US Patent are dumb because patent office of the US accept stupid patent without innovation.European patent are ok, because they don't accept things without innovation.
maxkashDec 14, 2006
'Dildo' produces some funny NSFW results:<a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6203491&id=rk8FAAAAEBAJ&dq=dildo">http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6203491&id=rk8FAAAAEBAJ&dq=dildo</a>(look at page 3)
zulfaqarDec 14, 2006
First to all those who think that they will see new inventions being posted on google patents, think again. Google only has patents and not patent applications. Patent applications are not made public until 18 months after it has been filed. Most of the patents you will see are inventions that where filed for almost 2 to 3 years before (sometimes even longer). Therefore, most of the patents on here will be fairly well known before a patent is even issued. To those who complain that the PTO accepts applications that are frivilous, you are right. That however does not mean they will be granted a patent. If an invention is a obvious derivative an already known invention then a good examiner will reject the application claim based on that ground. Finally, I want to comment that I love this new search tool. The layout is the best part. If google would incorporate strong boolean operators into is search capabilities it would make it the best search site out there.
digitalchaos666Dec 14, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/patents?id=g5Y9AAAAEBAJ">http://www.google.com/patents?id=g5Y9AAAAEBAJ</a>
artifezDec 14, 2006
I usually don't agree with name calling but in this case it is accurate.
bioskopeDec 14, 2006
I remember making a web app that did this. Ended up hammering their server so hard during my initial tries that my company had to get a new ISP just to start on the project from the scratch since they banned that range
imightkillyouDec 15, 2006
Has anyone considered that this would give them a lock on new and upcoming patent ideas? If you search for a patent idea, and your search returns 0 results - couldn't Google then begin to research that idea and beat you to the punch with their massive R&D shop they have built? Just wondering if anyone has considered the implications of this, I considered it for their traditional search mechanism, but it would be hard to clean. This would seem to be much easier to scrub.
davedekkerDec 16, 2006
lots of fodder about it being a dup, but I read digg all the time and didn't see the original, I am an engineer that uses USPTO all the time and I am glad this was posted even if a dup, it will help me out greatly, I was able to quickly find numerous patents of mine. D