Life made easier for innovators like us?
Google made it easy for innovators like us to do some research at the patent files inside US Patent and Trademark Office. The beta version of their service still doesn’t let us sort the results by date, but its already a start if don’t like the complicated way inside Patent offices websites around the globe like:
US Patent and Trademark Office
German Patent Office
Japan Patent Office
INPI – Brazilian Office (yeah!)
read some files and let the Leonardo da Vinci inside of you do the rest.
Henrique Monnerat on December 17th 2006 in Design Knowledge, Tools
h.monnerat responded on 24 Jan 2007 at 10:19 pm #
I received a nice email from James who wrote:
Hi,
I saw that you have some patent-related info at http://www.lets-evo.net/ and I wanted to let you know about a free patent searching site, http://www.FreePatentsOnline.com. The site has more data and more features than the USPTO or any other free site, so I hope it will be of use to you. Major upgrades are coming next month also.
If you have an appropriate place on your web site, a link would be much appreciated!
Thanks for your time, and please let me know if you have any suggestions for improving the site.
Sincerely,
James
I took a look at the website an found it very user friendly, among the things I liked the most:
1. nice patent categories at the front page that you can filter
2. browse patents by week, which if you want, you can get a notifications when you register
3. direct links to most popular companies
4. and what I liked the most: A crazy patents section.
just one thing: I found confusing the fact that right after the abstract come google ads, which are followed after a huge gap by the whole patent claim text. It made me think I could only see the abstract, you have to scroll down the roll bar deeply so you can find the rest o the text. which tricked me at the first place so I went away.
If you want to see the patent drawings, you have to register.
Anyway, its worth to check it out.
Thanks for the Tip James.