By Melissa Estelle

Fall 2008

The exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, and sell an invention for a certain number of years (after 1995, it is 20 years)

Invention must be “new and useful” This excludes the patenting of inventions

useful only in the use of special nuclear or atomic energy in an atomic weapon

Must have complete description of actual machine or other subject matter; patents will not be issued for just mere suggestions or ideas

Works just like the normal google search

Searches the keywords you enter and brings up all patents that includes those words

Advanced patent search

Can use more specific details about the patent to find it

Patent number, inventor, issue date, etc.

Google holds patents of its own for the methods it uses to retrieve information given a user’s keyword(s)

Other patents they have are methods for improving the relevancy of the retrieval set.

Methods and apparatus for using a ... - Google Patents

inventor: Hideo Tomomatsu Assignee: Quaker Oats Company 1. Start with a solid colored cereal,

referred to as a base, whose color won’t fade in an aqueous medium aka milk.

2. Cover the base in an edible powder of a different color that obscures the base color.

3. Finish by covering with a water soluble edible adhesive, glycerine, that bonds the two together.

Patent number: 4853235