Google's New Patent Search

By Bill Slawski,

on December 14, 2006, at 8:35 am

It’s a little too much fun…

I’ve been spending some time looking through patents written by people like Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla, and some of the really old documents that are part of US history. The images are great, too. I’m wondering if the inventor of this pistol sword was a relative.

Danny wrote about it in Google Launches Google Patents, Full-Text US Patent Searching, and I added a long postscript to his post. I also included links to some papers there that describe some of the unique issues involving searching for patents.

This Google Patent Search opens up hundreds of years of patents to students and inventors, and makes them much more accessible than the US Patent and Trademark database has. It may not be the ideal place for patent searchers (at least not yet), but it’s still a tremendous tool.

Thanks, Google.

4 comments to Google’s New Patent Search

kid disco

12/14/2006 at 5:19 pm

Bill, you sound like a kid in a candy store… LOL
William Slawski

12/14/2006 at 8:21 pm

Thanks,

I’ve been having fun with it.
Scott Clark

12/17/2006 at 1:10 pm

You guys might enjoy my tongue-in-cheek holiday assembly…

The 12 Patents of Christmas

(wait until you see how we get the partridge in the Pair Tree)

Scott Clark
William Slawski

12/18/2006 at 12:27 am

Thanks, Scott.

Those were pretty amusing. Appreciate your sharing of them with us.

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