This news from Google sure sounds smart to me. But will patent paralegals be impressed?
"Google was live [12/14/2006] with a service enabling Internet users to search through the more than seven million patents granted in the United States.
"The beta, or test, version of Google Patent Search lets people sift through patents granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office as long ago as 1790 by using inventors’ names, filing dates, patent numbers or key words.
"Searches return information about the inventor and provide patent details online page-by-page."
I’ve never worked in this field, but was completely fascinated by the cool stuff I found!