If you have an invention that you are looking to patent and need to do a patent search, avoid hiring a lawyer and save your money. You can now do your own patent search online.
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By visiting freepatentsonline.com (link below) you can find all the information on current patents.
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This site allows advanced search techniques such as word stemming, proximity searching relevancy ranking and search term weighing to help you find exactly what you are looking for.
Tips & Warnings
Patent searches by an attorney can be very expensive, this could save you hundreds of dollars.
Once you have searched current patents, you can then hire an attorney to carry out your patent if needed.