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google.com — As part of Google ’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, we’re constantly working to expand the diversity of content we make available to our users. With Google Patent Search, you can now search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you.

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  • pacificdave, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Damn you're quick breezy....
  • jaadfoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29It's about time someone came up with an easy way to do this. Leave it to Google.
    • breezy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12This is pretty awesome. It looks like they are using the same interface from their book search for viewing a patent.
    • reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Reuse at work!

      (Computer scientists will understand how important that is)
    • rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Now we can see all of those ridiculous patents first hand.
    • interiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They may have just reused their book software. The issue with the USPTO search is that prior to a certain point, all patents were only available as images, and can't be text-searched. Plug the images into OCR, as if they were scanned from a book, and allow the text to be searchable... it's a no-brainer.
    • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"This is pretty awesome. It looks like they are using the same interface from their book search for viewing a patent."

      No reason not to, it's a great interface. I can't wait until they add scientific journal items to that as well.

      Google, single-handedly helping every student, everywhere.
    • rageguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Unfortunately the OCR does not seem to be perfect yet, do a search for a "two fart couch"
  • billflu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This is going to crush so many people's dreams when they realize that their million dollar idea was already though of... and patented.
    • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's not going to crush as many dreams as you think; Million-dollar ideas usually aren't patentable by themselves. Thousand-dollar ideas maybe, but Million-dollar ideas are normally collections of ideas, presented well and very marketable. There are however, exceptions to this rule, such as those Croc shoes everyone seems to love, in which case you're looking for a design patent, not a general patent (or "invention patent" as they're sometimes erroneously called).
    • sporkmonger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Heh, I just checked my idea... it hasn't been patented yet. There was even this one patent from 2000 that was kind of a blanket patent that covered basically everything in the industry in question due to it's descriptions of basically every possible way to wire the device. Except for the way I'm going to need to wire it. Quite convenient really. Yay for Google.
  • jtcalhoun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Hooray for Google doing patent search even better than the USPTO!
    • gmprunner, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Could that maybe be because the USPTO has better things to worry about besides search?
    • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You'd think the USPTO would have search on the mind in a HUGE way: Validating patents means finding older patents the current one is derived from, and searching to insure the idea hasn't already been patented by someone else. Both of these things require sophisticated searches of millions of documents. Google just did the USPTO a HUGE favor by collecting and attempting to categorize this information.
  • Kickboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Effective, interesting, and educational. Great idea on Google's part. I love the patent viewing interface; very smooth and intuitive.
  • scratt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4And the top searches are... "Apple" & "iPhone"
  • gmprunner, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Because I'm constantly searching for various patents.
    • reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Yeah...because Google only caters to you.
    • bloobloo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Well I am. So this is interesting to me.
  • WestDC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13WTF... "Device for cooling an infant's brain".

    I'll take three.
  • neladua, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A much better response to the "Google copied Yahoo" story -- this is a nice tool, well implemented. And no more wrestling with annoying TIFFs like you have to on the USPTO website.
  • MCMookie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Searching for really early patents using low numbers (i unno, anything 1-300) brought up some really really cool ***** on here from the 1800s. sweeet.
  • duzytata, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Search for "RECTAL DILATOR". Go on, I dare ya!
  • Visk, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5115800&id=UtshAAAAEBAJ
    +1 if you giggled.
  • PureHeretic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I checked if "Lollerskates" are patented yet...looks like im gonna make me some lollerskates and get em patented
  • Pushkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So we will now all post our funny findings?
    Gas impulse device and method of use thereof by Yuri ASS

    Well done Breezy - Beat ZDnet by 2 hours ;)

    By the way, why did they not spider espacenet while they were at it?
  • baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0hmm. these are not very high quality files at all. if you zoom in on the crusty looking text, it quickly pixelates before its readable
  • mocheeze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Found this patent as one of the randoms: http://www.google.com/patents?id=qXFnAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2#PPA2,M1

    Lava lamp. :)
  • opusagogo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think their load balancing is kind of buggy. I keep running into patents that are 404, then only to work later after I refresh the page. I bet they are rebooting the servers..

    also .. awesome page info for patent #2.. but doesn't it look like the OCR software messed up on this text:
    JOHN GOTLLDINQ, OP DBIIHXM, MASSAXHTLSERRRA XODE OF MAKTTFACTTTBING WOOL OB, OTHEB FZBBOUB
    http://tinyurl.com/yg3ymd
    • opusagogo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2bah.. maybe this will work?
      http://preview.tinyurl.com/yg3ymd
    • marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Shows how hard it is.

      It mixes M with X, U with TT and R with B.
    • geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That font is really nasty, typewriter with plenty of artifacts, I can completely understand how an OCR library can screw that up. The "G," for example actually does look like a Q.
  • itisme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2in the UK there is an audi advert at the moment that proclaims they filed 6000 more patents for their last car than NASA have in their history, do they honestly think that's a selling point.
    If Newton or Einstein were alive today their brilliance would be tied up in patent disputes!
  • drWhiet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3
    Brain Inducing Apparatus :
    http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5191894&id=YtAhAAAAEBAJ&dq=brain+inducing

    be afraid !
  • origon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ever wanted to display your rodents in tubes wrapped around your body?

    http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5901666&id=Kp4WAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4
  • thep1mp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3my new home page, digg
  • DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Meh, you cannot sort results by date... Maybe because it would show that they only go up to August 2005...

    So for any recent patent search, the uspto website is still the way to go.
  • alexanderpink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Next up: google has tons of patentable ideas from mining patent searches...

    A seriously awesome and useful search tool...the one on the USPO website sucks majorly...
  • Stuarts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Some Patent FAQs here - In case patents bamboozle you, and you want it all a bit simpler!

    http://www.direct-patent.com/patent-faqs.php
  • zjbird, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I wonder who patented the patent search...I know! I'll use googles search to find out! Then, I'll sew them! Yeahhh...I love the American legal system!
    • zjbird, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Wow I spelled sue sew, here come the negative diggs...
  • SteveDeGroof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nice interface. Of course, first thing I did was a vanity search:
    http://www.google.com/patents?q=steve+degroof
  • BullTaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I first thought you were associated with the lame IBM SW patent that shows up in the search results of your link.
    ************
    They patented a virtual table to store and retrieve environment variables via heterogeneous op sys commands?

    Here is some pseudo code, go get some ref books and fill in the interface commands to the various op systems and then code the thing. Get it done by the end of the day so we can file a patent application tomorrow.

    I am thinking that IBM and/or Microsoft like to patent simple things like this for quantity not quality and I have heard that they give/have given coders small bonuses for every one of these lame patents.
    **************
    Here is a more concise link to your invention:
    http://www.google.com/patents?q=ininventor%3A%22Steven+L.+degroof%22&btnG=Search+Patents
    • SteveDeGroof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I first thought you were associated with the lame IBM SW patent that shows up in the search results of your link."

      Nope, that one's not mine. That patent does reference something I did, though. Unfortunately, it's a piece-of-crap class that I wrote when I was learning Java. And now it's immortalized at the US Patent office. :-/
  • johnnyrocket, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wow, this blows away the IBM site and the gov site. Very impressive, Google team.
  • swingman6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too bad, patents are worthless, they provide a nice guide to building, but they really don't mean anything in the coroporate world of product design. From what i understand most patent attorneys never have a client that gets their product to market.
  • johnnyrocket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"An interactive virtual sexual stimulation system has one or more user interfaces."

    http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6368268&id=eGQKAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#PPA1-IA1,M1
  • Neiby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is very, very cool.
  • blubloblu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Has google gotten extremly quick or is it just me: http://img284.imageshack.us/img284/107/googlequickiv1.jpg
  • blubloblu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Edit: Double post
  • hiscity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmmm... I wonder if digg is infringing on microsoft's patent for social networking?

    http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6594673&id=I_sOAAAAEBAJ&pg=RA1-PA3&dq=social+network#PRA1-PA3,M1

    Is there a patent lawyer in the house?
  • GnuTzu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mozilla: http://www.google.com/patents?spell=1&q=mozilla&btnG=Search+Patents
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