Huddled Masses
December 19th, 2006 | 
Author: For the first time in a long time, I’m actually excited about a new Google service: Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO from the 1790s through the middle of 2006.
If you’ve ever done patent research, you’re going to be really impressed by this thing, I promise. They are hosting their own copies of the full text (where available) and all of the images, and presenting them in a slick AJAX viewer, so not only will you not get redirected to a slower government server to see the patent, there’s finally a way to view patent diagrams without downloading some obscure tiff-viewer!
The only real downside is that they don’t include patent applications, or even U.S. patents issued in the last few months (they’re working on it) ... and of course, they don’t include international patents either (yet?).
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I saw your website at http://huddledmasses.org/google-patent-search-verdict-awesome/ and wanted to recommend adding http://www.wikipatents.com to the page. WikiPatents has an extensive database of patents open for public comment on the internet, free patent translation into multiple languages, and allows PDF downloading of patents in addition to other free resources. It is a helpful site for anyone with patent related interests.
Have a great day,
Jamie
Patent Retriever http://www.patentretriever.com lets people download patents in PDF for free. Its a simple and easy to use web site and requires no registration beforehand and doesn’t insert logos into the PDF pages.