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google.com — As part of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, we’re constantly working to expand the diversity of content we make available to our users. With Google Patent Search, you can now search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you.

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  • tastethevenom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44Oh get a room, you two.
  • jaadfoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29It's about time someone came up with an easy way to do this. Leave it to Google.
  • breezy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Well, thanks to your post here: http://blog.outer-court.com/forum/79444.html I found out about it... so thanks for the tip.
  • WestDC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13WTF... "Device for cooling an infant's brain".

    I'll take three.
  • reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Yeah...because Google only caters to you.
  • breezy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12This is pretty awesome. It looks like they are using the same interface from their book search for viewing a patent.
  • reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Reuse at work!

    (Computer scientists will understand how important that is)
  • pacificdave, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Damn you're quick breezy....
  • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You'd think the USPTO would have search on the mind in a HUGE way: Validating patents means finding older patents the current one is derived from, and searching to insure the idea hasn't already been patented by someone else. Both of these things require sophisticated searches of millions of documents. Google just did the USPTO a HUGE favor by collecting and attempting to categorize this information.
  • rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Now we can see all of those ridiculous patents first hand.
  • jtcalhoun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Hooray for Google doing patent search even better than the USPTO!
  • bloobloo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Well I am. So this is interesting to me.
  • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"my first thought was Google patent search... as in they own it. guess even the big G can't do that."

    The problem with that thought is English: If Google patented search, it would have said "Google Patents Search" ("patents" being the sentence's verb) or "Google Receives a Patent for Search".
  • Kickboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Effective, interesting, and educational. Great idea on Google's part. I love the patent viewing interface; very smooth and intuitive.
  • billflu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This is going to crush so many people's dreams when they realize that their million dollar idea was already though of... and patented.
  • chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8my first thought was Google patent search... as in they own it. guess even the big G can't do that.
  • LukePsywalker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6fascinating...

    http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5115800&id=UtshAAAAEBAJ
  • MCMookie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Searching for really early patents using low numbers (i unno, anything 1-300) brought up some really really cool ***** on here from the 1800s. sweeet.
  • alexanderpink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Next up: google has tons of patentable ideas from mining patent searches...

    A seriously awesome and useful search tool...the one on the USPO website sucks majorly...
  • Pushkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4US1?

    http://www.google.com/patents?q=patent%3A1
    http://v3.espacenet.com/origdoc?IDX=US1
  • sporkmonger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Heh, I just checked my idea... it hasn't been patented yet. There was even this one patent from 2000 that was kind of a blanket patent that covered basically everything in the industry in question due to it's descriptions of basically every possible way to wire the device. Except for the way I'm going to need to wire it. Quite convenient really. Yay for Google.
  • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"This is pretty awesome. It looks like they are using the same interface from their book search for viewing a patent."

    No reason not to, it's a great interface. I can't wait until they add scientific journal items to that as well.

    Google, single-handedly helping every student, everywhere.
  • interiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They may have just reused their book software. The issue with the USPTO search is that prior to a certain point, all patents were only available as images, and can't be text-searched. Plug the images into OCR, as if they were scanned from a book, and allow the text to be searchable... it's a no-brainer.
  • drWhiet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3
    Brain Inducing Apparatus :
    http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5191894&id=YtAhAAAAEBAJ&dq=brain+inducing

    be afraid !
  • neladua, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A much better response to the "Google copied Yahoo" story -- this is a nice tool, well implemented. And no more wrestling with annoying TIFFs like you have to on the USPTO website.
  • Pushkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So we will now all post our funny findings?
    Gas impulse device and method of use thereof by Yuri ASS

    Well done Breezy - Beat ZDnet by 2 hours ;)

    By the way, why did they not spider espacenet while they were at it?
  • SamuraiGhost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Overclocking your kids?
  • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That font is really nasty, typewriter with plenty of artifacts, I can completely understand how an OCR library can screw that up. The "G," for example actually does look like a Q.
  • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Also, you should remember that the patent office burned down in 1877, destroying some 80,000+ patents, so what we call "Patent 1" today, may not actually be "Patent 1".
  • scratt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4And the top searches are... "Apple" & "iPhone"
  • mocheeze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Found this patent as one of the randoms: http://www.google.com/patents?id=qXFnAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2#PPA2,M1

    Lava lamp. :)
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow! Who woulda thought there were 1256 patents on the WHEEL!
  • opusagogo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think their load balancing is kind of buggy. I keep running into patents that are 404, then only to work later after I refresh the page. I bet they are rebooting the servers..

    also .. awesome page info for patent #2.. but doesn't it look like the OCR software messed up on this text:
    JOHN GOTLLDINQ, OP DBIIHXM, MASSAXHTLSERRRA XODE OF MAKTTFACTTTBING WOOL OB, OTHEB FZBBOUB
    http://tinyurl.com/yg3ymd
  • SteveDeGroof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nice interface. Of course, first thing I did was a vanity search:
    http://www.google.com/patents?q=steve+degroof
  • marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Shows how hard it is.

    It mixes M with X, U with TT and R with B.
  • Pushkin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So you want pdfs instead of tiffs?
    use espacenet: http://ep.espacenet.com/
  • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's not going to crush as many dreams as you think; Million-dollar ideas usually aren't patentable by themselves. Thousand-dollar ideas maybe, but Million-dollar ideas are normally collections of ideas, presented well and very marketable. There are however, exceptions to this rule, such as those Croc shoes everyone seems to love, in which case you're looking for a design patent, not a general patent (or "invention patent" as they're sometimes erroneously called).
  • itisme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2in the UK there is an audi advert at the moment that proclaims they filed 6000 more patents for their last car than NASA have in their history, do they honestly think that's a selling point.
    If Newton or Einstein were alive today their brilliance would be tied up in patent disputes!
  • opusagogo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2bah.. maybe this will work?
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/yg3ymd
  • afbase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i think tesla may have already had that apperatus. not sure though.
  • DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Meh, you cannot sort results by date... Maybe because it would show that they only go up to August 2005...

    So for any recent patent search, the uspto website is still the way to go.
  • johnnyrocket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21797 Patent?

    http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPATX170&id=1ewSAAAAEBAJ&printsec=drawing&zoom=4&dq=the&as_drrb_ap=q&as_minm_ap=1&as_miny_ap=2006&as_maxm_ap=1&as_maxy_ap=2006&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=1&as_miny_is=1776&as_maxm_is=1&as_maxy_is=1804

  • thep1mp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3my new home page, digg
  • johnnyrocket, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wow, this blows away the IBM site and the gov site. Very impressive, Google team.
  • origon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ever wanted to display your rodents in tubes wrapped around your body?

    http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5901666&id=Kp4WAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4
  • Neiby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is very, very cool.
  • GnuTzu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mozilla: http://www.google.com/patents?spell=1&q=mozilla&btnG=Search+Patents
  • johnnyrocket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"An interactive virtual sexual stimulation system has one or more user interfaces."

    http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6368268&id=eGQKAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#PPA1-IA1,M1
  • qwab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, what a genius Nikola Tesla was. It's such a shame that so few people know of him and his contributions to the modern world we live in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_tesla
  • rageguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Unfortunately the OCR does not seem to be perfect yet, do a search for a "two fart couch"
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