Espacenet Assistant: a free resource to learn about patent information, search techniques, and more

I found it to be a pretty neat new tool!

European Unitary Patent: A Quick Primer

New Indonesian Coverage in DWPI & the Digital Public Library of America Gears Up

Today we’ll touch on two interesting news stories: DWPI celebrates its 50th year with new Indonesian coverage, and the Digital Public…

Free Mexican Patent, Trademark, and Design Search Tools: VIDOC and SIGA

Read on for a description of the broad search and display options for Mexican patent, trademark, and design records accessible through various online services within the…

A Free Online Portal of Swiss Intellectual Property: Swissreg

The search portal is available in German, French, Italian, or English (by selecting the language options in the upper right corner of the website).

The 3 Best Ways to Find Google Search Product News

Google produces a number of useful products that often provide a good starting point for patent and non-patent literature (NPL) prior art searches,…

Patents to defend us against meteors

People have been thinking of things to save us from our doom. Those things are...interesting.

5 Unique Ways to Refine or Expand Result Sets with EBSCO Discovery Service

EBSCO Industries has developed a number of innovative search tools accessible on its flagship platform, …

Don’t Fall Prey to “Awkward” Patent Claim Translations

Recent news out of the Northern District of Georgia provides even more evidence of the fact that shoddy…

Search Reports, Patent Documents, and File Histories from Brazil through e-Patentes

For example, today we’ll take a quick look at a free resource listed on Intellogist called …

The Next Google Scholar? Scholrly’s Potential for Locating Non-Patent Literature

Scholrly is a free search engine for academic writing that we first heard about…

Meeting the Challenges of Data Collection and Analysis

We’ve all seen blatant errors in patent metadata. The industry’s standard coverage now includes millions of documents from over a hundred patent authorities, and the error rate only increases with this rapidly…

Find Patent Coverage Around the World with Intellogist’s Newly Updated Map

Our recent posts on the Italian Patent and…

Use These Patents to Control the Weather

I think everyone in the upper part of the Northern Hemisphere could use some of these to ward off the cold right now!

Patents to help warm you up

Some interesting ones in here...hope those boots don't malfunction!

Patents helping you shop ’til you drop

Which one of these would help you most this shopping season?

Turkey Stuffing Innovation

Some fun and thoughtful inventions for protecting stuffing inside your turkey. Happy (American) Thanksgiving everyone!

Voting Patents Past and Present

A fun post that looks at some fresh technology as well as old technology...

Candy ECLA Classifications

Trick or treating fun starts tomorrow night in the United States, but here are some sweet classifications for you.