Google Patents

Seems like Google has everything you want.

Recently Google visited our faculty for a session with our students.At the presentation, an interesting fact that they mentioned was ; "we are not just a search engine company, our focus is to ARRANGE each and every information in an accessible manner". What they meant was, that the motive of Google is to arrange information so that it is way easier to find some information than it was before.

I realized that Gmail, Google maps, Google docs, Youtube etc. all follows the above motive.

Currently I am taking a course on "Intellectual Property" at my university. For the people who have no idea what it is, here's what Wikepedia says about it.

"Intellectual property (IP) is a juridical concept which refers to creations of the mind for which exclusive rights are recognized.^[1] Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Common types of intellectual property rights include copyright, trademarks, patents,industrial design rights and in some jurisdictions trade secrets."


In simple terms, It discusses about legal issues regarding innovations and creative ideas. Patents play a big role within the subject. If you need to get a patent for some innovation you did, It has to be the first of such kind in the world. It shouldn't have been patented anywhere in the world before . 

Okay, imagine a situation where you think you have found something new to this world. Are you really sure about it? I mean,that you were the first to invent it? How can you make sure of that? Every country has a separate department regarding intellectual property.  So of course, you can ask from them about the validity of your innovation, but there seems to be an easy way. 

Whoa! Google really did ARRANGE it. It is "Google Patents". All you have to do is to visit the link www.google.com/patents and search the whole database of patents ever invented to this world. They are well categorized, very well documented and easy to understand. ( This basically provides the US patent database,but other patent databases can be accessed via visiting the respective web sites )


This is why I respect Google. They make life easier. It wouldn't have been easier to do this, but they did it. Google patents is not only useful for innovators. I find it very useful to increase our knowledge about the great inventions, coming up each and everyday. 

Nice Work Google. Thank you.