Google Public Policy Blog: Improving patent quality one search at a time
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2015/07/good-patents-support-innovation-while.html
Traditional searches often focus on other patents. But the best
prior art might be a harder-to-find book, article, or manual. That
was true in the "shopping cart" patent case. After many companies
paid out millions in settlements, a court finally struck down the
patent in light of two books that were not found by the examiner
who issued the patent. The new Google Patents helps users find
non-patent prior art by cataloguing it, using the same scheme that
applies to patents. We've trained a machine classification model
to classify everything found in Google Scholar using Cooperative
Patent Classification codes. Now users can search for "autonomous
vehicles" or "email encryption" and find prior art across patents,
technical journals, scientific books, and more.
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Excellent. Destroy all patent trolls!
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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