Search the USPTO’s Patents Google Style

Google has introduced Google Patent Search, a service that makes it easy to search the USPTO’s 7 million patents. Its based on the same technology they use in their book searches. if you are looking for documentation on a specific patent you can search for them here.

Google Patent Search makes it easy to find your own patent as well as famous patents which have lead to products that have changed our daily lives like Apple’s iPod, Google’s PageRank^TM or Bluetooth. You can search by title, patent number and by keywords found the in the Patent Filing.

From the Google Blog:

It’s a natural extension of our mission to make this public domain government information more easily accessible using Google’s search technology. We’re pleased to have started with over 7 million patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and look forward to expanding our coverage over time.

You can search by patent number, patent title, or inventor’s name. We decided to give Google’s Patent Search a try. Here are a few patents we found using information from the patent web pages on shop4patents.com.