They say that all the great ideas are already taken. Well they were wrong!
You’ve just invented a new form of treatment for diabetes, some new innovations for your time machine or even an awesome new way to take your banana to work.

The idea is great and nobody else has ever thought of it. This is going to make you millions for sure. However, your lawyer has other ideas. He did a search on major patent databases and he’s got news for you: Your innovation isn’t new, the patent office will reject it without a blink of an eyelid and ‘by the way that will be $1000 please’ he beams as he gives you the news.

Next time, you’ll search to check that your innovation hasn’t already been patented before consulting him. Next time you’ll make your lawyer work for his money. Next time will be time to take your patentability search into your own hands and use this patent search engine by Intellectual Property Exchange. IPEXL Search makes that a bit easier by placing all the most active patent offices in one place (United States, European, Canadian and World Intellectual Property Office). Not to mention there is also a healthy collection of Asian patent offices such as China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore which, lets face it, are not the easiest databases to find online and search.

IPEXL Search makes patentability and prior art searches all that much easier by placing them all in one simple to use interface. Just enter your keywords and let the search engine do the rest. Alternatively, users can search for patents by browsing through the directory by clicking on any of the keywords given (which will also convert the English keyword to Chinese language and search for related Chinese patents).

So if you’re looking for patents from China you can enter the English word or the native Chinese text directly. In some cases, the system will even translate the wording for you. So if you’re looking for patents related to ‘leisure’ the system will translate the word ‘leisure‘ to the Chinese equivalent and do the search on the Chinese database for you.

Voila. All the world’s patents are now in one convenient place; and so are the Chinese ones.

IPEXL Search is an intellectual property search engine developed by Intellectual Property Exchange. It provides and all in one search for Asian patents, an IPC code search and allows for native language searching in Chinese.

The address for the search is: http://www.ipexl.com.
Cheers!
Mark Ashworth

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