USPTO Launches Global Patent Search Tool

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced the launch of the Global Patent Search Network this week. While this free service will eventually allow users to search a broader range of non-U.S. patents in both English and the patent’s native language, it is currently confined to a database of Chinese patents granted between 2008 and 2011. At the present time, users of this search tool can access both the full text of Chinese patents and the English machine translations provided by the State Intellectual Property Office (“SIPO”) of the People’s Republic of China. According to Acting Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea, “This new search tool delivers to the public, as well as our patent examiners, an additional source of foreign patent collections. Furthermore, the immediate availability of English machine translations will effectively address the language barrier and allow for quick analysis of the relevancy of the prior art while reducing the need for costly human translations. Machine translation technology can sometimes generate awkward wording, but it provides an excellent way to determine the gist of the information in a foreign patent.”

“We believe that the introduction of the Global Patent Search Network and the future inclusion of additional foreign patent collections will be a valuable tool for improving search quality and comprehensiveness in today’s global IP market,” continued Rea. Additional information about the firm and its attorneys may be found at www.klemchuk.com.

The website, accessible from the USPTO’s official website, can be found here: http://gpsn.uspto.gov.

Source: http://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/announcing_the_global_patent_search

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