Google Expands Its Patent Search Engine to 11 More Countries to Aid Budding Inventors
Google Expands Its Patent Search Engine to 11 More Countries to Aid Budding Inventors
California –USA, Google is expanding its Google Patents service to 11 more countries, which it says will make it easier for inventors in those countries to determine whether their invention already has been made without having to deal with local patent offices. Google Patents was first launched in the US in 2006. The platform was expanded to cover the European Patent Office in 2012, followed by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the offices of Germany, Canada, and China. Patent holders trying to protect their next invention benefit by gaining more certainty their patents will not be invalidated later because of prior art that was not found during examination, according to a Google blog post. The new Google Patents expansion is the biggest to date. The platform can now be used to search for patents in the UK, Japan, South Korea, France, Spain, Belgium, Russia, Finland, Netherlands, Denmark, and Luxembourg. Users will be able to search through patents both in English and in a patent's native language using Google Translate.
.Source:From the article of the same title. Digital Trends (08/31/16) de Looper, Christia