[Genealib] FW: google patents

[Wundercapo]

This is great! I always had to go to the European Patent Office to do
keyword searches for old patents, since the USPTO only let you search older
patents by patent number. Now I can just go to Google!
Thanks for letting us know about this.

James

On 14/12/06, Sarah Kirby <SKirby at boelter-yates.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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> -----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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