IP Newsflash Adds FPO SearchBox

IPNewsflash.com is the 100th Website to Add the FreePatentsOnline SearchBox

The FreePatentsOnline SearchBox, which is available for free at www.citepatents.com, now has been provisioned now 100 times. The 100th website to add the widget is IP Newsflash, a popular news site about Intellectual Property based in Cologne, Germany, but with a worldwide audience. The Patent SearchBox is here: www.ipnewsflash.com/patent_search.php.

Advanced Patent Search

"What’s interesting about patent systems around the world is they not only indicate the company behind a patent-- called the Assignee-- but also the inventor, or inventors,” said Erik Reeves, CEO of FreePatentsOnline. “A patent’s Assignee may change over time, as a company is acquired or otherwise changes form. But the inventor is always honored; his or her name is engraved in granite for posterity. In our blog, we highlight inventors, and expose some of the inspiration behind their work.”


“We wanted to make it very easy for our users to initiate a patent search from our website,” said Rolf Claessen, CEO of IP Newsflash and a patent attorney based in Cologne, Germany. “We added the FreePatentsOnline SearchBox in about thirty seconds by grabbing the HTML at www.citepatents.com, and our visitors have given us plaudits for making patent search easily accessible across the millions of U.S., European and Japanese documents at FreePatentsOnline.”

Any patent in the FreePatentsOnline database can be turned into a customized, virtual patent plaque with just a mouseclick. This is called the “Plaque It!” feature.

The company behind FreePatentsOnline is Patents Online, LLC. The firm also offers a property for power-users called www.sumobrain.com. It is completely free, too, and has additional features such as the ability to store up to 20,000 patent documents in named folders.

About IP Newsflash
IP Newsflash is an IP meta-information portal that browses your information channels for you and presents only relevant, recent and customizable IP information on a single page.

IP Newsflash is for time-hungry patent professionals who want to stay up to date but dislike the tedious task of browsing through countless sources of information.

This website brings to you news as well as notices and caselaw from the European Patent Office, the US Patent and Trademark Office, the Office for Harmonization for the Internal Market (European Trademark Office), the German Patent and Trademark Office, WIPO, the Japanese Patent Office, the Swiss Patent Office, the Chinese Patent Office, the European Court of Justice, the Court of First Instance (EU), the German Federal Patent Court, the German Federal High Court of Justice, the US Supreme Court, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on one single page.

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