[Genealib] FW: google patents

[Sarah Kirby]

If you've ever been asked about patent searching for genealogical
purposes - it just got quite a bit easier.  I'm in love ... And I've
only done one 5 minute search for my grandfather.

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Sarah A. V. Kirby
Corporate Librarian
skirby at boelter-yates.com
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sarah at vandeventer.net 

-----Original Message-----
From: eldnet-l-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
[mailto:eldnet-l-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Jackie
Shane
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:48 PM
To: eldnet-l at u.washington.edu
Subject: google patents

Google has been purchasing bulk data from USPTO and created a pretty
nice interface.  Looks like the drawbacks currently are page by page
printing, the lack of patent applications, and imperfect OCR scans (but
doesn't everyone have that problem?). 
Not bad for Beta though.   

http://www.google.com/patents

Jackie


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