Google now has a Patent Search!

Design Leadership
Mar 13, 2007
4 Comments


Google continues to extend their foothold as the world’s best search engine, by extending their scope to include patents!

There is now no excuse to not know if its been done before or not. Check it out here.

Via: Aialone




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    • Comments

    csven
    Mar 14, 07 – 11:13 am

    Yep. Started in December.

    csven
    Mar 14, 07 – 11:20 am

    I gave it a try when it was first announced but the USPTO site (once you get past the crappy interface and .tif images) gave better results. Hopefully Google has improved its search results.

    Design Translator
    Mar 14, 07 – 1:45 pm

    Hehheh I agree, but I just cant stand the USPTO slow service and poor interface. Most of the time I just give up!

    Design in central and eastern Europe » Blog Archive » Patent search by Google.com
    Apr 05, 07 – 1:58 am

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