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IP.com is already the best place to do free online patent and non-patent literature searching, and now IP.com has entered a partnership with Peer To Patent, in which “Peer To Patent peer reviewers will be provided direct access to many of IP.com’s valuable prior art databases by logging in here with their Peer to Patent project credentials.” This is a great step forward for the growing movement of public assessment of patent claims. Here’s a little more about Peer To Patent:

Peer To Patent is a historic initiative by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that opens the patent examination process to public participation for the first time. Peer to Patent is an online system that aims to improve the quality of issued patents by enabling the public to supply the USPTO with information relevant to assessing the claims of pending patent applications.

This is a great step forward for peer reviewers of patents and other intellectual property.

Have yourselves a Friday Patent Poem, inspired by Systems and method for orthogonal frequency divisional multiplexing, in the Abstract, no doubt.

Orthogonal Freq

Systems and methods
systems and methods
what is the frequency of
systems and methods
when your orthogonal embodiment is in division
and you feel your modem go cold

De-modulate!

A true multi-carrier uprising
receiving symbols from the plurality
the spectrally overlapping modulations
signals coupled to the transmitter
processors controlling data controlling processors
Fourier on all fours with his symbols

Payload data!

If I ever get out of this orthogonal overlap
buy me a drink and give me a slap.

If you need to do a little patent searching, the best choice just keeps getting better: IP.com‘s free patent search engine. Not only is the design better and the page loading time faster than most other free patent search sites, but IP.com has more databases in place and more on the way (including China PRC and Chinese in English translation already in place), from patents and patent applications to prior art publications and now IBM Redbooks. And IP.com’s handy “more like this” feature on every patent page is a great semantic matching tool that no other search service has.

Here are a number of patents and patent applications that are all about the process of searching for patents:

• Technical classification method for searching patents
• Web-based method and system for identifying and searching patents
• Method for searching patents utilizing IPC classification
• System and method for searching patents based on a hierarchical histogram
• Patent searching method and patent searching system using the same
• Method for inspecting patent search result
• Repetitive fusion search method for search system
• Data searching apparatus capable of searching with improved accuracy
• Method, apparatus, and system for searching based on filter search specification
• Patent searching program automatic installing refreshing system and method
• Reliability verification method of patent retrieval data
• Enhanced search results
• Dynamic image content search information managing apparatus
• System and method to enable searching across multiple databases and files using a single search
• Pay-per-patent-proof system and method
• Full text search system
• Multilingual patent information search system
• System and method of placing a search listing in at least one search result list
• Search system and method based on search condition combinations
• Using hyperbolic trees to visualize data generated by patent-centric and group-oriented data processing
• Patent searching method and patent searching system using the same
• Method for inspecting patent search result
• Expanded patent search
• System and method for searching patents using DNA fragment number
• Patent searching system and method
• System and server for providing information, user terminal device, contents display device and method
• Display method for patent search
• Patent retrieval method and system
• Patentability search / novelty search

I have tried a bunch of services for patent, non-patent and trademark searching, and IP.com definitely has the best free patent search service I’ve come across. Give it a try.

We get a lot of inventors here at Wordlab looking to name their new inventions, and we’re always studying the language of patents and trademarks. So, as a reference tool, here are Wordlab’s Top 12 free online patent search services:

1. IP.com
2. USPTO
3. WIPO
4. Google Patents
5. Patents.com
6. FreePatentsOnline
7. Patent Lens
8. Faqs.org
9. FreshPatents.com
10. PatentStorm
11. Patent Genius
12. GetThePatent.com

Boring device and boring method

Word association method and apparatus

“Miniature rose plant named Poulvok,” meet “Automatic livestock head splitter.” I’m sure you two will have lots to talk about.

I’ve been on a rampage though the patent database trolling for unusual names and language. Here is another gem: Tortoise penis kidney-tonifying wine. Betcha’ never thought you could patent such a concoction! In case you want to try to brew this baby up at home, the patent abstract lists the key ingredients:

The invention discloses tortoise wine for invigorating the kidney. The technical key points of the invention are that the wine is made by infusing live turtle, deer scourge, fur seal scourge and such Chinese herbal medicine as honeysuckle, osmanthus flower, codonopsis pilosula, angelica, morinda root, leatherleaf milletia, dodder, Schisandra, radix achyranthis bidentatae, Cherokee rose, barrenwort and grain wine. The wine for invigorating the kidney of the invention ahs the effects of invigorating the kidney, benefiting the stomach, strengthening the human immunity, resisting the fatigue and preventing the aging.

I was especially struck — after “tortoise penis” — by the ingredients “deer scourge” and “fur seal scourge”. I thought, is there another, more benign meaning of “scourge” that I’m not aware of? Nope, all the definitions of “scourge” are pretty grim:

• noun: a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)
• noun: a person who inspires fear or dread
• noun: something causes misery or death
• verb: punish severely; excoriate
• verb: whip
• verb: devastate or ravage

This “kidney-tonifying wine” sounds even more inviting than the “turtle deer donkey wine” I posted yesterday, unless you’re a “live turtle”.

Basically what you’ve got here is “pureed tortoise penis and other animal crap that will cause you misery or death.” You see, it succeeds in “preventing the aging” by killing you outright. There, no more worries about aging.

Band name idea: Impregnated Monoliths

Drink up: Making process of turtle-deer-donkey wine