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Google Launches 'Prior Art Finder' For Patents

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Google has announced a new offering called the Prior Art Finder, in which it tries to help anyone find prior art on patents. When you view a patent via Google's patent database, there will now be a button you can click, which tries to take terms from the patent, and displays a variety of related info from the date that the patent was filed:

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BernardSwiss Story submitter ·
A weapon against trolls? Or a weapon for trolls?

Alternative View: Will Google's Prior Art Finder Become An 'Infringement Finder' For Trolls?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120815/08415720060/altern...

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