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The USPTO offers a free search engine, what is wrong with it?

To answer your question I am going to use the words of the US patent offices.

Below is the intro for the USPTO seven steep process to conduct a patent search using there system.

This is a Seven Step Strategy for conducting preliminary searches of U.S. patents and
PTRCs provide online access to the PatFT (Patents Full-Text and Image)
and AppFT (Applications Full-Text and Image) databases on the USPTO website
and the Espacenet Worldwide Database on the EPO website.
In addition, most PTRCs provide access to additional USPTO patent databases
available through PubWEST (Public version of the Web-based Examiners Search Tool)
and PubEAST (Public version of the Examiners Assisted Search Tool).
The USPTO has transitioned from 100 year old U.S. Patent Classification (USPC) system
to Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC),).

The USPTO currently only uses CPC for classifying new utility patent documents;
it will continue to use U.S. Patent Classification for classifying design and plant patents.

Let me tell you, it only gets more convoluted from there. Do you see the problem?

Yea that is a bit obnoxious.
What about Google didnt they come out with a Patent Search Engine?

Yes, In 2006 Google took their book search engine

and set it loose within a patent database going back to 1790 for the US and 1978 for Europe.

Then they kept working on it, updating it, adding country after country.

They integrated Google Scholar and google Books, along with all kinds of tools.

Today it is the best FREE search engine out there,

and a complete waste of time

Why do you say that?

I can see its use for an initial search to see what exists in the field of your invention, but it is a huge investment of time.

The more you put in the farther you have to go.

Page after page, its Click, scroll, zoom, click, scroll, zoom,

through drawings and technical jargon, until your mind is mush, eyes are glazed

and your finger is begging for a mouse with a ball on top.

After hours invested you feel like you missed something and you are less certain then when you began.

Have you tried Inn Venn?

No, I am waiting for their launch. I have read their White Page and seen their diagram. The page layout is exactly what I have wanted. The time saving alone makes is worth the cost to use.

They are also offering some other features that go beyond belief.
when I first read there White Page I thought "they cant do that,
no one can do that, it is years ahead of its time" .
However The more I read about what and how they are building,
the more I believe these guys are on to something.
Now, I eagerly await the applications release.
If the launch does not happen soon I will skip the coin offering and subscribe to their preexisting system.
They have addressed every issue I had with patent search engines and then some.

I just tried LociPro's InnVenn on there website. It is definitely a winner, and I only tried the striped down free version. Great job.