Google Launches Patent Search!

Google just launched a new search engine, Google Patent Search.
With Google Patent Search, you can now search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you. You can view images of original patents online, or save and print them for offline use.
According to the About page, the patent data come from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and there are approximately 7 million patents. You can learn more about this new search engine and how to use advanced search with it on this page, also at Google Blog and Inside Book Search Blog.