Saturday December 16th 2006, 8:30 pm
Filed under: innovation, internet
Google launched a patent search product this week. The data is sourced from the official U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but the UI is significantly better than the government sponsored site. Its designed to sort through the approximately 7 million U.S. patents by a number of criteria, including key words, filing date, issue date, patent number, and inventor.
December 17th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
Thanks for posting this. Dealing with the USPTO system is a real grind (take it from one who knows). I tried the Google Patent site out this morning, and it’s a lot easier to navigate, work through, and use.