New Feature and New Content Now Available From Google Patent Search

A Google Research Blog Post informs us of new content and a new feature available from Google Patent Search.
1. Now Searchable on Google Patent Search: Patents from the European Patent Office
2. New: Prior Art Finder.

Typically, patents are granted only if an invention is new and not obvious. To explain why an invention is new, inventors will usually cite prior art such as earlier patent applications or journal articles. Determining the novelty of a patent can be difficult, requiring a laborious search through many sources, and so we’ve built a Prior Art Finder to make this process easier. With a single click, it searches multiple sources for related content that existed at the time the patent was filed.
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The Prior Art Finder identifies key phrases from the text of the patent, combines them into a search query, and displays relevant results from Google Patents, Google Scholar, Google Books, and the rest of the web. You’ll start to see the blue “Find prior art” button on individual patent pages starting today.

Direct to Google Patent Search Interface
See Also: Patent Page Showing Button For “Prior Art”

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