FreePatentsOnline Launches the CitePatents Program : Making it Easy for Bloggers and Journalists to Reference Patents, and Add

) December 17, 2008 --
FreePatentsOnline.com
(FPO) has launched an informational site, www.citepatents.com,
to help bloggers, journalists and others easily reference patent
information, and to provide a free patent search box for adding to
websites with a single mouse click.

Across the international spectrum, tens of millions of patents now exist, going back hundreds of years

It is a profoundly broad database of how things work, from every continent. Citing a patent with FPO is easy, because the FPO URL taxonomy is crystal clear.

I always reference FPO when I cite patents

They have the best interface and features in the inventions-database space, and as soon as they made their search capability available outside their site, I placed it on my blog right away, as a service to my readers.

Due to an impartial, peer-reviewed nature, patents are an important,
frequently cited source of highly detailed, accurate technical
information. Patents are uniquely powerful in citation; any writer on
the web who refers to a patent with a hyperlink is footnoting a
highly-credible document.

“Across the international spectrum, tens of millions of patents now
exist, going back hundreds of years,” said Erik Reeves, CEO of
FreePatentsOnline. “It is a profoundly broad database of how things
work, from every continent. Citing a patent with FPO is easy, because
the FPO URL taxonomy is crystal clear.”

For example, RIM, the firm behind the BlackBerry, may have avoided its
patent infringement lawsuit and settlement payment of $612.5 million to
Annandale, Virginia-based NTP by simply searching CitePatents.com
or FreePatentsOnline.com
for an electronic mail system with RF communications to mobile
processors patent. The result is http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6317592.html.

“I always reference FPO when I cite patents,” said Blaise Mouttet of the TinyTechIP
blog. “They have the best interface and features in the
inventions-database space, and as soon as they made their search
capability available outside their site, I placed it on my blog right
away, as a service to my readers.”

At CitePatents.com,
the html behind the FPO SearchBox can be grabbed and placed on a website
or blog. Also, CitePatents.com
has information on the differences between patents and patent
applications, patent numbering, and the taxonomy of a patent document.

The FPO SearchBox is also available via www.widgetbox.com,
as is the firm’s www.honoringtheinventor.com
blog widget, via the keyword “patent.”

FreePatentsOnline.com
(FPO) founded in 2004, is based in Ellicott City, Maryland. FPO is the
leading web property in terms of audience for patent search. Many
millions of Netizens find out how things really work via FPO. The
company’s new property, www.SumoBrain.com,
serves power users seeking in-depth learnings from the world’s largest
database of human achievement. FreePatentsOnline™, CitePatents™, Patent
Plaque™ and Plaque It!™ are trademarks of Patents Online, LLC.

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