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The Tough Patent Law now made easy through a website.

published July 09, 2007

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<<One of the most difficult and important concepts for law students to grasp is patent law. Professors are going to demand in-depth analysis and understanding, forcing students to locate all that is available on the specific topic or product in question. Conducting patent research in a thorough and time-efficient manner requires access to the most complete and advanced searching tools. While a number of free sites exist, including the U.S. Patent and Trademark (USPTO) website and the European Patent Organization (EPO) website, most of these sites have serious drawbacks that render them less than optimal for professional searching.

The USPTO site has only U.S. data, yet conducting a thorough search often requires review of foreign patent data as well. The USPTO site can also be very slow at times. The EPO site, while more comprehensive than the USPTO, only searches select fields of many documents. Without a text search capable of searching all fields, it is obvious how a search could miss crucial documents.


Students often do not have room in their budgets for expensive search services. FreePatentsOnline.com is the most complete, full-featured site on the web that provides advanced patent information at no expense. Document collections include U.S. and foreign patents, all fields are searchable, and the site provides portfolios for organizing documents, the ability to comment on and share documents, and the ability to set up alerts for automatic notifications of new patents of interest. For novice patent searchers, the help center also contains a comprehensive tutorial on the topic.

Fee-based patent-searching sites exist and can certainly provide adequate patent-searching services as well. Such sites include Delphion, MicroPatent, and Questel-Orbit. But when most of these sites' subscriptions start at hundreds of dollars per month, and FreePatentsOnline.com is free, it can be hard to justify the use of these fee-based sites based solely on a few bells and whistles that students generally do not need.

Note that the makers of FreePatentsOnline.com will be launching their own subscription-based site shortly, at www.sumobrain.com. This site will be a cost-effective alternative to other fee-based sites for those who really need the most advanced features.

About the Author:

James Ryley is the president of FreePatentsOnline.com, a patent data and analytics firm. James was responsible for the original design and programming of FreePatentsOnline.com and now directs its development and analytics teams.

Previously with Patent Complete, LLC, a patent-searching firm, James holds a B.S. in Cell Biology and Genetics and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and has extensive patent-searching, programming, and data-analysis experience.

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published July 09, 2007

( 13 votes, average: 3.9 out of 5)
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