PatentCafe (www.iamcafe.com), is a leading provider of patent data centric enterprise intellectual property asset management (IPAM) software, whose ICO Suite is the global patent search that allows non-patent professionals such as venture capitalists, CEOs or marketing managers to quickly search the underlying technology of a search engine competitor or find potential patent infringements.
In contrast to PatentCafe’s ICO global patent search, Google, Yahoo, MSN, and even the US Patent and Trademark Office’s search queries are limited to only a few words and none of these web search engines access global patent databases. The recent search engine wars between Google, Yahoo, Amazon’s new A9.com, Ask Jeeves, MSN, IceRocket and others, are far from over, though. Using PatentCafe’s patent search engine to search search engine technology, web search engine companies and their attorneys are just beginning to lay the groundwork for legal battles that will continue changing the search engine landscape over the next years.
