Society of Robots - Robot Forum
General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: Admin on December 15, 2006, 08:23:48 AM
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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
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I use the search engine at: http://www.uspto.gov/
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Also very good:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/index.html