| Google Patents search gets upgrade, now filled with prior art and European patent goodness Aug 15th 2012, 06:51  Apple and Samsung's legal tussles have previously placed a spotlight on stuff like 2011: A Space Odyssey by way of prior art. Now Google's patent search is giving prior art some love as well with the addition of the aptly named "Prior Art Finder" to its patent search tool. Marked by a patently obvious blue button, the new addition serves up relevant prior art results by using key phrases from a patent's text and putting them together in a search query. Besides drawing from Google Patents, the finder also displays results from Google Scholar, Google Books and the web's other nooks and crannies. The recent improvement also adds some Euro flavor to Google's patent search by including submissions to the European Patent Office. The addition should work well with an update to Google Translate earlier this year that added parallel patent texts from the aforementioned European agency to allow for translations between English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Swedish. As always, folks can check the source link for the full details. Filed under: Internet Google Patents search gets upgrade, now filled with prior art and European patent goodness originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  The Verge |  Google Research | Email this | Comments | | LG sells five million LTE smartphones, plans 'second to none' lineup soon and girds for patent battles Aug 15th 2012, 06:12  While LG's dollars and cents return on its cellphones have been up and down this year, but the company just announced that since starting the LTE trend with the Revolution in May 2011, it's sold five million high-speed data connected handsets and has no plans to slow down. The counter ticked over three milion back in May, four million in June and, according to LG, sales continued at a pace of one phone every two and a half seconds. That includes two million Optimus LTEs, over 500,000 Optimus Vus and about the same number of Optimus LTE IIs in the first 70 days alone. Now the Korean company is preparing to take its Optimus Vu phablet global, and CEO Dr. Jon-seok Park says its LTE phones in the next few months will be "second to none." with Finally, there's a note possibly intended to ward off the kind of patent trouble currently chasing Samsung, as it's added to an earlier note about the $8 billion value of its LTE patents with another claiming its "largest overall" total number of patents as verified by consulting firm TechIPM. We'll see how well that strategy, and those future phone introductions, work out in the coming months, the rest of the press release is after the break. Continue reading LG sells five million LTE smartphones, plans 'second to none' lineup soon and girds for patent battles Filed under: Cellphones LG sells five million LTE smartphones, plans 'second to none' lineup soon and girds for patent battles originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | LG | Email this | Comments | |
