Patents, RSS Feeds, Keyword Searches, Oddball Certificates

It's thanks to good ol' Murphy's law, I think. Now that I'm deeply distracted by Real Life (tm), nifty sites and applications are crawling out of the woodwork. Now if I weren't busy, the most exciting thing going on would be news that Terry Semel had created a line of designer neckties or something like that. But nooooo....

Two great tastes are put together in Freshpatents ( http://www.freshpatents.com/ ) which offers an RSS feed of patent applications as well as keyword searching. You'll need to register to use the site. When I registered I got an odd error about the certificate. If the site had wanted anything more than an user name and password to register I would have stopped right there, but it didn't.

Once registered, I wandered through the site. It looks like it's updated every Thursday (except this past Thursday.) Information on the site includes an RSS feed of patent highlights and pointers to specific lists of patent applications in bunches of categories. Listings link to patent abstracts and additional information.

If you have specific patent interests, you may monitor up to ten keywords. Results for the keywords you specify will be e-mailed to you every Monday morning. You can also see patent applications broken out by US state or by country, by industry (agh! My eyeballs! The text here is crammed a little closely together) by inventory (browsable alphabetically -- huge list here) or by agent (from A Gilent Technologies, Inc. Legal Department, Dl429 to Zymogenetics, Inc.)

Patent data is searchable by keyword with some narrowing options (title/abstract, agent, etc.) Very fast site. I want to see a few more weeks' worth of content.

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