Google search for patents: the display of the patents found is very nice – Google provides a standard template listing information on the inventors, claims and linking to referenced patents. Example: Method for node ranking in a linked database – update. It seems to me the search could be improved. Still it is interesting: Patent searches for Thomas A. Edison – 3d hologram television –
It also is obvious there are way too many patent applications for obvious things. Two simple examples, of many: Method of concealing partial baldness – making a sandwich.
Related: The Effects of Patenting on Science – Companies, Not Countries, Hold The Key to Innovation Leadership – Patent Review Innovation – Statistics for Experimenters – Bad Patents
While the display is nice and the printing will be nice once it is released, there are some hidden limit issues yet to be resolved.
any search which should find thousands of patents only finds 1200 +/-
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Automobile=1232
Particle=1248
Airplane=1125
Smith=1250
Water=1263
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