Friday, December 15, 2006

Google: Patent Search

Law Wire™ notes that Google has launched its patent search facility at www.google.com/patents. It seems to be a Beta site, so things can only get beta ...

The front page is clean, crisp and easy on the eye; you can search under Web, Images, Video, News, Maps and More ... and there's a continuously changing selection of five featured patents if you just fancy a gentle browse. Google offer over 7 million patents, though that's not the same as 7 million inventions. The Patent Search Help facility even helps laymen make some sense of their search results once they've got them.

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