Just like their plan to give away free WiFi, Google has a new patent search engine that other vendors like Thomson currently charge for. Still in Beta, use it now while it doesn't even have Ads popping up. One way for Google to improve this ap is to include batch search (which Thomson offers). Anybody who's been near a patent lawyer knows that you call up batches of reference patents at a time when studying prior art. Still, kudos to Larry and Serge for bringing us yet another free service.
