Patent search

[Chris Knight]

You heard it here first!
Now you can search for all those little details in the tools of yore eg

http://www.google.com/patents?q=plane&b ... ch+Patents

USA only at the mo unfortunately..

 

[Adam]

You can also get patents for the uk for free from here

http://gb.espacenet.com/search97cgi/s97 ... /quick.hts

Adam

 

[bugbear]

For American patents a great deal of filtering has already been done:

http://www.datamp.org/

BugBear

 

[Alf]

Now that's handy - found the brace chuck patent it took me two days to find on the USPO site in a mere five minutes. Wasn't in DATAMP

Cheers, Alf