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Google Patents Search
Google has launched a patents search. Essentially “second searching” the U.S. patent base, it might nonetheless be more user-friendly for those who are not IP experts, and it certainly can amuse the rest of us. When you go to the site, you’ll see five pictures or sketches from five different patents chosen at random; hit refresh and everything moves down one place to welcome a new image — fun for when things are very very slow, perhaps.
Canadian patents can be searched at the Canadian Patents Database at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office website.
Candy cane forming machine
Very cool tool.
I agree that it’s a neat tool, but it does seem as if its skewed to historic materials since it wasn’t bringing up post-State Street business method patents I was looking for.
It would be interesting to get an assessment from one of the patent bloggers.
Carolyne Sidey’s got a post up today telling us to be wary of the results.