Re: Google patent search online (beta)

In article <elrgdl$bnm$1@xxxxxxxx>,
Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This really works, and it shows diagrams too, I just entered 'PLL",
and lots of interesting ideas :-)

http://www.google.com/patents?q=PLL+&btnG=Search+Patents


Yes it does. It must be a frontend to the US Patent and trademark
Office at http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html with google searching.
Google only does US patents at present.

The server at www.uspto.gov will only send TIFF files of patents
which is a bit of a pain. I prefer the European Patent Office
at http://ep.espacenet.com/ which sends PDFs of the whole world's
patents.
.