Google Patents

Search engine from Google that indexes patents and patent applications

Google Patents

Type of site

| Digital library for patents
Created by| Google
URL| patents.google.com
Registration| Not required
Launched| December 14, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-12-14)

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

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Google Patents indexes more than 87 million patents and patent applications with full text from 17 patent offices, 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.[1]

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

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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

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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

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Litigation

Advertising|

* Feldman v. Google, Inc. (2007)
* Rescuecom Corp. v. Google Inc. (2009)
* Goddard v. Google, Inc. (2009)
* Rosetta Stone Ltd. v. Google, Inc. (2012)
* Google, Inc. v. American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, Inc. (2017)
* Jedi Blue

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* United States v. Adobe Systems, Inc., Apple Inc., Google Inc., Intel Corporation, Intuit, Inc., and Pixar (2011)
* Umar Javeed, Sukarma Thapar, Aaqib Javeed vs. Google LLC and Ors. (2019)
* United States v. Google LLC (2020)
* United States v. Google LLC (2023)

Intellectual
property|

* Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. (2007)
* Viacom International Inc. v. YouTube, Inc. (2010)
* Lenz v. Universal Music Corp.(2015)
* Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. (2015)
* Field v. Google, Inc. (2016)
* Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. (2021)
* Smartphone patent wars

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* Hibnick v. Google, Inc. (2010)
* United States v. Google Inc. (2012)
* Judgement of the German Federal Court of Justice on Google's autocomplete function (2013)
* Joffe v. Google, Inc. (2013)
* Mosley v SARL Google (2013)
* Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González (2014)
* Frank v. Gaos (2019)

Other|

* Garcia v. Google, Inc. (2015)
* Google LLC v Defteros (2020)
* Epic Games v. Google (2021)
* Gonzalez v. Google LLC (2022)

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* Googlewhack
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Documentaries|

* AlphaGo
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* Google and the World Brain
* The Creepy Line

Books|

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* Google Volume One
* Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
* How Google Works
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* In the Plex
* The Google Book
* The MANIAC

Popular culture|

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* "Google Me" (Kim Zolciak song)
* "Google Me" (Teyana Taylor song)
* Is Google Making Us Stupid?
* Proceratium google
* Matt Nathanson: Live at Google
* The Billion Dollar Code
* The Internship
* Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego?

Other|

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