Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Keeping track of patents using RSS feeds

The hard way of keeping tracks of patents is to physically check it from time to time. The smart way of staying up to date is to use RSS feeds. A good RSS feed reader is the Google RSS reader. There are others.

Let's say you want to keep up to date on "metamaterials" patents. First, you go on Google patents search and then query google with the word 'metamaterials'. This will lead you to here. If you now scroll to the bottom, you'll discover the feed URL, which is this.

Simply add the link to your RSS feed reader and you'll be among the first ones to know when patents are popping up!

The latest metamaterials patent which appeared 6 days ago is on "ACTIVE TERAHERTZ METAMATERIAL DEVICES" and belongs to H. T. Chen et al., best known for their paper in Nature.

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