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History and background

The service was launched on December 14, 2006. Google says it uses "the same technology as that underlying

Google Books Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical charac ...

", allowing scrolling through pages, and zooming in on areas. The images are saveable as

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files. Google Patents was updated in 2012 with coverage of the

European Patent Office The European Patent Office (EPO) is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. The EPO acts as executive body for the organisation

(EPO) and the Prior Art Finder tool. In 2013, it was expanded to cover

World Intellectual Property Organization The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO; (OMPI)) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN). Pursuant to the 1967 Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO was created to pr ...

(WIPO),

German Patent Office The German Patent and Trade Mark Office (; abbreviation: DPMA) is the German national patent office, with headquarters in Munich, and offices in Berlin and Jena. In 2006 it employed 2556 people, of which about 700 were patent examiners. Function ...

(, DPMA),

Canadian Intellectual Property Office The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO; French: ''Office de la propriété intellectuelle du Canada, OPIC'') is responsible for the administration and processing of the greater part of intellectual property (IP) in Canada. CIPO's areas ...

(CIPO), and China's

National Intellectual Property Administration The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA; ) is the patent and trademark office and primary intellectual property regulator of the People's Republic of China. Naming The agency was founded in 1980 as the Patent Office o ...

(CNIPA). All foreign patents were also translated to English and made searchable. In 2015, a new version was introduced at patents.google.com with a new UI, integration of

Google Scholar Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of Academic publishing, scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in Beta release, beta in November 2004, th ...

with machine-classified with

Cooperative Patent Classification The Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) is a patent classification system, which has been jointly developed by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

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Patent search services Internet properties established in 2006

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