Search patents online using Google Patents

Posted on May 1, 2009 at 5:10 am

Do you think you have a noble idea worth patenting? Whether it is a new recipe for cooking stew or a new banking scheme that will save the world economy – before publishing it with claims of ownership, it is a a good idea to check if that idea is already owned or patented by someone else.

To search for patents using Google’s patent search engine which is now on its beta stage, go to the following site: http://www.google.com/patents

It looks and works like a standard Google search page but it limits its search to only 7 million patents (as claimed on the current beta version).

You may enter a phrase or name of the patent owner related to the patent filing.

You may use the view as list or view as thumbnails dropdown to show a listed search item or thumbnail of graphical representation of the patent:

If you click a patent it will open the patent document for reading. You will see the main component like claims, abstract, patent number, issue date, inventors, examiners and other information. You may also download the patent on a PDF format.

It is interesting to see that the patents’ contents are catalogued and viewable inside Google. It is very interesting to find out that it doesn’t redirect you to outside sources unlike ordinary Google search.

If you think your idea is better than the one’s already patented – make sure to claim your patent as that idea could be, say, the next iPod.

Ben Carigtan shows you how it’s done.

» Filed Under Google Software/Tips

Comments

2 Responses to “Search patents online using Google Patents”

Cristian2 said on : January 29th, 2010 at 3:45 pm

How can I find Italian patents using this site? Thanks.

Santi said on : March 10th, 2010 at 9:14 pm

This is really neat. I really love how Google is allowing us normal consumers to be able to access such data that was possibly earlier, but very hard to do. Now I can pull up patents with one click! Amazing!