News Break: Google Patent Search
December 13th, 2006
In the design industry, we often find ourselves painstakingly navigating the USPTO website, searching for prior art and looking up patents, but those days may be gone forever! Only moments ago, Google just launched a beta site for Google Patent Search.
Give it a try! We’d love to hear our readers’ comments on what they find and what they think about its usability.
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December 13th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
Oh, and here’s the official word from the GoogleBlog.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/now-you-can-search-for-us-patents.html
December 14th, 2006 at 9:29 am
Now this is something! Very exciting. I just blew an hour looking up various things that have been on the brain.
I initially thought that the search results would just send me to a page on the USPTO site, or a similar hard to decipher site. But instead Google has pulled all the relevant information (and documents!) into an executive summary type page. So from that perspective, the usability is really fantastic.
December 18th, 2006 at 10:39 am
Thanks for the find. Google is really at it as rumour has it they are going to co-brand a cell phone with UK wireless provider Orange. Google would bring some location searching software to the table in that deal. Read more: http://www.activitybook.org/2006/12/18/the-google-is-going-to-the-phone/
Marty