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{{Short description|Search engine from Google that indexes patents and patent applications}}
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'''Google Patents''' is a [[search engine]] from [[Google]] that indexes [[patent]]s and patent applications.
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'''Google Patents''' is a [[search engine]] from [[Google]] that indexes [[patent]]s and patent applications from the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] (USPTO), [[European Patent Office]] (EPO), [[World Intellectual Property Organization]] (WIPO), [[Deutsches_Patent-_und_Markenamt]] (DPMA), [[Canadian Intellectual Property Office]] (CIPO), and China's [[State Intellectual Property Office]] (SIPO).<ref>https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/6261372?hl=en About the new Google Patents</ref> These documents include the entire collection of granted patents and published patent applications from each database (which belong to the [[public domain]]). US patent documents date back to 1790, EPO and WIPO to 1978.<ref>https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/2539193?hl=en About Google Patents</ref> [[Optical character recognition]] (OCR) has been performed on the older US patents to make them [[web search engine|search]]able, and Google Translate has been used on all foreign patents to make the English translations searchable.

==Contents==
Google Patents indexes more than 87 million [[patent]]s and patent applications with full text from 17 [[patent office]]s, including:
* [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] (USPTO),
* [[European Patent Office]] (EPO),
* China's [[National Intellectual Property Administration]] (CNIPA),
* [[Japan Patent Office]] (JPO),
* [[Korean Intellectual Property Office]] (KIPO),
* [[World Intellectual Property Organization]] (WIPO),
* [[Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt]] (DPMA),
* [[Canadian Intellectual Property Office]] (CIPO),
* [[Rospatent]],
* [[Intellectual Property Office (United Kingdom)]],
* [[National Institute of Industrial Property (France)]],
* the [[Netherlands Patent Office]],
* offices of Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, and Luxembourg.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7049585|title=Coverage - Google Help|website=support.google.com}}</ref>
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These documents include the entire collection of granted patents and published patent applications from each database (which belong to the [[public domain]]). US patent documents date back to 1790, EPO and WIPO to 1978.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/2539193?hl=en|title=About Google Patents - Google Help|website=support.google.com}}</ref> [[Optical character recognition]] (OCR) has been performed on the older US patents to make them [[web search engine|search]]able, and [[Google Translate]] has been used on all non-English patents to make the English translations searchable.

Google Patents also indexes documents from [[Google Scholar]] and [[Google Books]], and has machine-classified them with [[Cooperative Patent Classification]] codes for searching.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7049585?hl=en&ref_topic=6390989|title=Coverage - Google Help|website=support.google.com}}</ref>

Patent litigation information is also available in Google Patents through a partnership with Darts-ip, a global patent litigation database.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.darts-ip.com/darts-ip-google-patents/|title=Darts-ip's data now available with Google Patents {{!}} Darts-ip|website=www.darts-ip.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-07-20}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://patentlawyermagazine.com/darts-ip-confirm-partnership-with-google-patents/|title=Darts-ip confirm partnership with Google Patents - Patent Lawyer Magazine|date=2018-03-27|work=Patent Lawyer Magazine|access-date=2018-07-20|language=en-GB|archive-date=July 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720201740/https://patentlawyermagazine.com/darts-ip-confirm-partnership-with-google-patents/|url-status=dead}}</ref>


==History and background==
==History and background==
The service was launched on December 14, 2006. Google says it uses "the same technology as that underlying [[Google Books]]",<ref name="gpAbout">{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com/googlepatents/about.html|title=About page|publisher=Google Patents site|accessdate=December 29, 2006}}</ref> allowing scrolling through pages, and zooming in on areas.<ref name="gBlog">{{cite web|url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/now-you-can-search-for-us-patents.html|title=Patent announce page|work=official Google Blog site|accessdate=December 29, 2006}}</ref> The images are saveable as [[Portable Network Graphics|PNG]] files.
The service was launched on December 14, 2006. Google says it uses "the same technology as that underlying [[Google Books]]",<ref name="gpAbout">{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/googlepatents/about.html|title=About page|publisher=Google Patents site|access-date=December 29, 2006}}</ref> allowing scrolling through pages, and zooming in on areas.<ref name="gBlog">{{cite web|url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/now-you-can-search-for-us-patents.html|title=Patent announce page|work=official Google Blog site|access-date=December 29, 2006}}</ref> The images are saveable as [[Portable Network Graphics|PNG]] files.

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Google Patents was updated in 2012 with coverage of the [[European Patent Office]] (EPO) and the Prior Art Finder tool.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2012/08/improving-google-patents-with-european.html|title=Improving Google Patents with European Patent Office patents and the Prior Art Finder}}</ref>

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In 2013, it was expanded to cover [[World Intellectual Property Organization]] (WIPO), [[German Patent Office]] ({{lang-de|Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt}}, DPMA), [[Canadian Intellectual Property Office]] (CIPO), and China's [[National Intellectual Property Administration]] (CNIPA). All foreign patents were also translated to English and made searchable.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ai.googleblog.com/2013/09/broadening-google-patents.html|title=Broadening Google Patents}}</ref>


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In 2015, a new version was introduced at patents.google.com with a new UI, integration of [[Google Scholar]] with machine-classified with [[Cooperative Patent Classification]]s (CPCs), and search result clustering into CPCs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2015/07/good-patents-support-innovation-while.html|title=Improving patent quality one search at a time}}</ref>
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Google Patents was updated in 2012 with coverage of the [[European Patent Office]] (EPO) and the Prior Art Finder tool.<ref>http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2012/08/improving-google-patents-with-european.html</ref>


In 2016, coverage of 11 additional patent offices was announced.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/11-new-countries-available-google-patents/|title=11 New Countries Available in Google Patents|date=August 30, 2016|website=Google}}</ref> Support for the USPTO and EPO boolean search syntax (proximity, wildcards, title/abstract/claims fields) was introduced, as well as visual graphs of inventors, assignees and CPCs by date, a thumbnail grid view of search results and downloadable result sets as CSV.<ref>https://patents.google.com/ "New! boolean search, graphs, thumbnail grids and downloads". Retrieved November 7, 2016.</ref><ref>https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7049475?hl=en&ref_topic=6390989 About Google Patents - Searching</ref>
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In 2013, it was expanded to cover [[World Intellectual Property Organization]] (WIPO), [[Deutsches_Patent-_und_Markenamt]] (DPMA), [[Canadian Intellectual Property Office]] (CIPO), and China's [[State Intellectual Property Office]] (SIPO). All foreign patents were also translated to English and made searchable.<ref>http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/09/broadening-google-patents.html</ref>


In 2018, global litigation information has been added. Google Patents pages display if a patent (or any member of its family) has a litigation history anywhere in the world and provides a link to the Darts-ip patent cases database.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
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In 2015, a new version was introduced at patents.google.com with a new UI, integration of [[Google Scholar]] with machine-classified with [[Cooperative Patent Classification]]s (CPCs), and search result clustering into CPCs.<ref>http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2015/07/good-patents-support-innovation-while.html</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[https://patents.google.com Google Patents] new search homepage
*[https://patents.google.com Google Patents] new search homepage
*[http://www.google.com/patents Google Patents] old search homepage
*[https://patents.google.com/advanced Google Advanced Patent Search]
*[http://www.google.com/advanced_patent_search Google Advanced Patent Search]


{{Google Inc.}}
{{Google LLC}}


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Latest revision as of 11:13, 16 December 2023

Google Patents
Type of site
Digital library for patents
Created byGoogle
URLpatents.google.com
RegistrationNot required
LaunchedDecember 14, 2006; 17 years ago (2006-12-14)

Google Patents is a search engine from Google that indexes patents and patent applications.

Contents[edit]

Google Patents indexes more than 87 million patents and patent applications with full text from 17 patent offices, including:

These documents include the entire collection of granted patents and published patent applications from each database (which belong to the public domain). US patent documents date back to 1790, EPO and WIPO to 1978.[2] Optical character recognition (OCR) has been performed on the older US patents to make them searchable, and Google Translate has been used on all non-English patents to make the English translations searchable.

Google Patents also indexes documents from Google Scholar and Google Books, and has machine-classified them with Cooperative Patent Classification codes for searching.[3]

Patent litigation information is also available in Google Patents through a partnership with Darts-ip, a global patent litigation database.[4][5]

History and background[edit]

The service was launched on December 14, 2006. Google says it uses "the same technology as that underlying Google Books",[6] allowing scrolling through pages, and zooming in on areas.[7] The images are saveable as PNG files.

Google Patents was updated in 2012 with coverage of the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Prior Art Finder tool.[8]

In 2013, it was expanded to cover World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), German Patent Office (German: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, DPMA), Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), and China's National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA). All foreign patents were also translated to English and made searchable.[9]

In 2015, a new version was introduced at patents.google.com with a new UI, integration of Google Scholar with machine-classified with Cooperative Patent Classifications (CPCs), and search result clustering into CPCs.[10]

In 2016, coverage of 11 additional patent offices was announced.[11] Support for the USPTO and EPO boolean search syntax (proximity, wildcards, title/abstract/claims fields) was introduced, as well as visual graphs of inventors, assignees and CPCs by date, a thumbnail grid view of search results and downloadable result sets as CSV.[12][13]

In 2018, global litigation information has been added. Google Patents pages display if a patent (or any member of its family) has a litigation history anywhere in the world and provides a link to the Darts-ip patent cases database.[4][5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Coverage - Google Help". support.google.com.
  2. ^ "About Google Patents - Google Help". support.google.com.
  3. ^ "Coverage - Google Help". support.google.com.
  4. ^ a b "Darts-ip's data now available with Google Patents | Darts-ip". www.darts-ip.com. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Darts-ip confirm partnership with Google Patents - Patent Lawyer Magazine". Patent Lawyer Magazine. March 27, 2018. Archived from the original on July 20, 2018. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  6. ^ "About page". Google Patents site. Retrieved December 29, 2006.
  7. ^ "Patent announce page". official Google Blog site. Retrieved December 29, 2006.
  8. ^ "Improving Google Patents with European Patent Office patents and the Prior Art Finder".
  9. ^ "Broadening Google Patents".
  10. ^ "Improving patent quality one search at a time".
  11. ^ "11 New Countries Available in Google Patents". Google. August 30, 2016.
  12. ^ https://patents.google.com/ "New! boolean search, graphs, thumbnail grids and downloads". Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  13. ^ https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7049475?hl=en&ref_topic=6390989 About Google Patents - Searching

External links[edit]

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