Free Patents & Inventions website
Posted: 07 Aug 2013 16:38
OK, this website may be of minority interest, but I personally have found it very useful: so maybe others will, too!
http://www.epo.org/searching.html
It lists all patented inventions ... both UK-registered and international.
Some time ago L&SWL members kindly helped me to locate one of my McQuinn relatives ... curiously, he'd described himself as an "inventor" on the 1901 census return, and I was completely baffled as to what he may have invented. Well, just this week I located his inventions (between 1896 and 1928) on the above website simply by typing his name into the search box at the very top of this page:
http://www.epo.org/searching/free/espacenet.html
There is also an excellent (free) facility for down-loading the original document/s.
http://www.epo.org/searching.html
It lists all patented inventions ... both UK-registered and international.
Some time ago L&SWL members kindly helped me to locate one of my McQuinn relatives ... curiously, he'd described himself as an "inventor" on the 1901 census return, and I was completely baffled as to what he may have invented. Well, just this week I located his inventions (between 1896 and 1928) on the above website simply by typing his name into the search box at the very top of this page:
http://www.epo.org/searching/free/espacenet.html
There is also an excellent (free) facility for down-loading the original document/s.