Sunday 12 April 2009

OECD patents and applications online

European and US patents and applications are available online here (EU) and here (US). The patents give information on how new European and US inventions are constructed and on what previous ideas they are based. A few examples are

a multi function tape measure here,

a glare reducing hood for a laptop computer here,

and a mosquito net for use with a hammock here.

Inventors and entrepreneurs use patents and applications to keep up with innovations in technologically leading countries and to develop their own new products from them, citing the original products in patent applications.

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