Adam & Amber’s Blog

I know that many of us are trying to get patents and, after coming up with an idea, one of the hardest parts of getting a patent is making sure it is unique. Well Google has come up with a search engine to help search through US patents (See Google Blog post here). The site can be accessed by going to http://www.google.com/patents. You can do lots of interesting searches (for instance check out what some Aslakson’s have patented). I’m not sure exactly what a glory hole furnace is (other then that it sounds dirty), but I am proud that someone with my last name helped invent it (in 1900). Am I related to that Aslakson? I don’t know, Google hasn’t gotten to the point yet that it can tell me, but I am sure sometime soon it will.

You wouldn’t think looking through patents would be that fun, but it kinda is If you find any cool ones send them my way.