The homepage of patents.com displays a search bar which gives you 4 search options – simple search, advanced search, expert search and bulk search. It also displays some recently claimed patents and the most popular search topics.

You can search through different terms and keywords and get the patents in text view or image view along with the translations. To enable the image view you’d need to install the Adobe Acrobat plugin for your browser. There is also further information available about patents including descriptions and references.

Check out Patents.com @ www.patents.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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We have already profiled a patent search tool earlier, it’s called FreePatentsOnline. However Google Patents is a lot better. It’s a lot more than just a patent search tool, and is more like a massive patent information database. On each patent page you can see:

(1) Patent summary: All important details summarizing the patent. These includes dates of interest, associated parties and classifications.

(2) Patent Claims: Lists the specific claims made by the patent.

(3) Drawings and Pictures: Thumbnail shots of pictures found in the the patent.

(4) Option to search within that specific patent.

(5) Citations: List of patents that are cited by the patent.

(6) References: List of patents that reference the given patent.

Furthermore, you can read the full patent contents online or download and save it to your PC as PDF document. And another really useful fetaure is the advanced patent search. Using this search option you can find almost any patent you need by applying a whole bunch of filters.

Check out Google Patents @ www.google.com/patents

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