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'''Google Patents''' is a [[search engine]] from [[Google]] that indexes [[patent]]s and patent applications from:
'''Google Patents''' is a [[search engine]] from [[Google]] that indexes more than 87 million [[patent]]s and patent applications with full text from 17 patent offices, including:
* [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] (USPTO),
* [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]] (USPTO),
* [[European Patent Office]] (EPO),
* [[European Patent Office]] (EPO),
* China's [[State Intellectual Property Office]] (SIPO),
* [[Japan Patent Office]] (JPO),
* [[Korean Intellectual Property Office]] (KIPO),
* [[World Intellectual Property Organization]] (WIPO),
* [[World Intellectual Property Organization]] (WIPO),
* [[Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt]] (DPMA),
* [[Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt]] (DPMA),
* [[Canadian Intellectual Property Office]] (CIPO), and
* [[Canadian Intellectual Property Office]] (CIPO),
* China's [[State Intellectual Property Office]] (SIPO).<ref>https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/6261372?hl=en About the new Google Patents</ref>
* Russia, UK, France, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands.<ref>https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7049585 About Google Patents - Coverage</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 non-English patents to make the English translations searchable.
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 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>https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7049585?hl=en&ref_topic=6390989</ref>


==History and background==
==History and background==
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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>
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>

In 2016, coverage of 11 additional patent offices was announced.<ref>https://blog.google/topics/public-policy/11-new-countries-available-google-patents/</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>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 12:29, 7 November 2016

Google Patents
Type of site
Digital library for patents
Created byGoogle
URLpatents.google.com
RegistrationNot required

Google Patents is a search engine from Google that 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]

History and background

The service was launched on December 14, 2006. Google says it uses "the same technology as that underlying Google Books",[4] allowing scrolling through pages, and zooming in on areas.[5] 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.[6]

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.[7]

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.[8]

In 2016, coverage of 11 additional patent offices was announced.[9] 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.[10][11]

References

  1. ^ https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7049585 About Google Patents - Coverage
  2. ^ https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/2539193?hl=en About Google Patents
  3. ^ https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7049585?hl=en&ref_topic=6390989
  4. ^ "About page". Google Patents site. Retrieved December 29, 2006.
  5. ^ "Patent announce page". official Google Blog site. Retrieved December 29, 2006.
  6. ^ http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2012/08/improving-google-patents-with-european.html
  7. ^ http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/09/broadening-google-patents.html
  8. ^ http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2015/07/good-patents-support-innovation-while.html
  9. ^ https://blog.google/topics/public-policy/11-new-countries-available-google-patents/
  10. ^ https://patents.google.com/ "New! boolean search, graphs, thumbnail grids and downloads". Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  11. ^ https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7049475?hl=en&ref_topic=6390989 About Google Patents - Searching

External links

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