1. By Melissa Estelle Fall 2008

2.  The exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, and sell an invention for a certain number of years (after 1995, it is 20 years)  Invention must be “new and useful”  This excludes the patenting of inventions useful only in the use of special nuclear or atomic energy in an atomic weapon  Must have complete description of actual machine or other subject matter; patents will not be issued for just mere suggestions or ideas

3.  Works just like the normal google search  Searches the keywords you enter and brings up all patents that includes those words  Advanced patent search  Can use more specific details about the patent to find it  Patent number, inventor, issue date, etc.

4.  Google holds patents of its own for the methods it uses to retrieve information given a user’s keyword(s)  Other patents they have are methods for improving the relevancy of the retrieval set.  Methods and apparatus for using a... - Google Patents Methods and apparatus for using a... - Google Patents

5.  inventor: Hideo Tomomatsu  Assignee: Quaker Oats Company  1. Start with a solid colored cereal, referred to as a base, whose color won’t fade in an aqueous medium aka milk.  2. Cover the base in an edible powder of a different color that obscures the base color.  3. Finish by covering with a water soluble edible adhesive, glycerine, that bonds the two together.  Patent number: 4853235