google patent search

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google releases a new patent search engine . . .
http://www.google.com/patents

interestingly, it only has 1149 results for a search on 'robot'
might be worth a browse . . .

o well, guess i cant make a robot that transforms into a gun after all 
http://www.google.com/patents?id=ngAuAAAAEBAJ

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This is a cool thing because Google's trying to bring patents to the people, so to speak. But it's next to useless currently. I'm hoping it will continue to improve.

See insightful comments at:
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2006/12/search_patents_.html#comments

[Cognaut]

I use the search engine at:  http://www.uspto.gov/

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Also very good:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/index.html