Use PriorSmart For Patent Search

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1. Steve Nimmons
   

   April 3rd, 2008 at 1:25 am

   I am very pleased to read of new developments in the patent search domain. Patent searching and registration in most (if not all jurisdictions) is just too protracted. Anything that speeds up checking of new ideas against existing registrations is very welcome, although I think we have a way to travel before patent search / registration becomes truly an accessible process in innovation (outside of corporations that have all the knowledge and machinery to make this happen). Innovation at the individual level I feel is stifled by the complexity and cost of existing approaches.

2. Chair
   

   April 3rd, 2008 at 1:54 am

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   right steve nimmons

3. Lorne
   

   April 3rd, 2008 at 7:11 am

   A couple quick searches from priorsmart for US patents showed that this sight isn’t better than Google Patent Search. Priorsmart just runs your queries on the existing search engines for those countries (which for the US means running on the lame USPTO site).

   It’s nice that search for so many countries can be performed from a single launch page, but without improvements to the interface for searching / viewing actual patents (like GPS) I’m not going to leave GPS.

   … yes, you can search GPS from Prior smart, but why wouldn’t I just start there to begin with?

4. maa
   

   April 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm

   Please note that the espacenet server provides access to the world-wide largest patent collection, including US, Japanese, Chinese and, of course European patents.

5. ELT
   

   April 4th, 2008 at 11:32 am

   This is an interesting site, but if you want to see a truly innovative patent search tool, visit http://www.sparkip.com. These guys have clustered patents, patent applications, and over 6,000 licensable technologies in a giant cluster map. The map changes w/ new innovation. It’s like google maps for patents meets an EBay for licensable inventions… Check it out!

6. Lorne
   

   April 4th, 2008 at 5:14 pm

   @ELT, Wow! SparkIP is fantastic. They may even put Google Patent Search to shame. Mike, you should have reviewed these guys instead.

7. johns
   

   April 5th, 2008 at 11:46 pm

   Too bad that SparkIP requires Active-x controls to run, so only runs in IE and not FF. Sheese. While FF has 15-20% of the general browser market, I’d wager that perhaps up to 50% of technologically aware people use FF.

   It’s disappointing that SparkIP only wants to serve IE users.

8. johns
   

   April 5th, 2008 at 11:49 pm

   @3 - The problem I have with using Google for patent searches is that I believe all Google searches are available for review, unlike on the PTO site. I don’t want anyone to get any clues based on what I am searching for, which is why I don’t use Google for patent searches.

9. johns
   

   April 5th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

   @6 - Maybe I was doing something wrong on SparkIP in IE but I wasn’t able to get any results for searches I tried. I was in Advanced Search and tried searching for 3 words in any field. SparkIP kept telling me I had to use the Advance Search. BUT I was already in the advanced search! I tried using boolean operators between the words but this didn’t get me anything other than the same msg about using advanced search. Sorry, but it doesn’t seem like SparkIP is ready for prime time. And their help is useless.

10. Bruce
    

    April 7th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    @Johns - I tried SparkIP with Firefox and had no problems. Maybe you need to update your Flash.

11. johns
    

    April 10th, 2008 at 1:12 am

    @10 - Flash works OK on most sites in FF for me. But then there are some sites like SparkIP where it apparently doesn’t work so well. Not sure why. Maybe they do something unusual with how they implement Flash? Whatever, I guess that is their problem. There are just too many other ways to get patent info to bother with a site that doesn’t work well.

12. Changenotfeared
    

    April 10th, 2008 at 8:25 am

    @johns

    There’s too many other ways to get patent info period, which is why sparkip is useful- it distills the massive amount of patent info (not to mention the IP of america’s leading research institutions) down to useful, usable objects.

    If flash doesn’t work for you on multiple sites, maybe you should ask your local IT fella to update your flash.

13. johns
    

    April 10th, 2008 at 11:34 pm

    Ha Changenotfeared - I AM my local IT fella. Been working with Windows and PC’s for oh, 15 odd years now, so I think I am pretty knowledgeable.

    Regardless of whether this site works in FF, I couldn’t get anything useful out of it in IE either.

    A site needs users. If I am the only person with a problem, then it is my problem. If there are others though, then the site has a problem. I guess we’ll see if they are able to monerterize their site, which will be the ultimate judgment.