FreePatentsOnline.com Adds Free Chemical Search

FreePatentsOnline.com (FPO) (http://www.freepatentsonline.com) has joined forces with SureChem, Inc. (http://www.surecheminc.com) the leading provider of online chemical search and custom chemical structure databases. This new partnership provides free chemical searching, drawing from data across the US, EP, and WIPO patent data collections, encompassing nearly 9 million unique chemical structures.

BALTIMORE, Md. (Business Wire EON) August 18, 2008 -- "We are very excited to announce our partnership with SureChem and offer a truly unprecedented free service. Chemical search is a field in which users are accustomed to paying substantial fees and we are shaking things up with this new feature," said Erik Reeves, CEO of FreePatentsOnline.com.

SureChem Free

Through SureChem Free, users can search nearly 9 million unique structures extracted from the full text of US, EP and WO patents and applications, including prophetic, excluded and other compounds not covered by manually-curated databases. Searches can be performed using textual or graphical representations of chemical structures including:

Full chemical structure Substructure Structural similarity Chemical name Weekly data updates SureChem Pro

FPO and SureChem offer a more powerful, secure solution for chemists and IP analysts and other professional chemical patent searchers. SureChem Pro provides additional features designed for professional users:

Next-day data updates Data export Secure connection Searchable pdfs Saved searches Alerts "FreePatentsOnline has become the destination of choice for both casual and professional patent searchers worldwide, so it makes the perfect platform to launch the world's first free chemical search service, as well as a great way to introduce new users to the power of SureChem Pro," said Michael Faust, CEO of SureChem, Inc. FPO and SureChem will be integrating SureChem Pro with advanced patent search tools that will soon be available through the SumoBrain brand.

FreePatentsOnline allows for the full-text cross-collection searching of US and EP patents and applications. SumoBrain (http://www.sumobrain.com) provides additional data sets plus advanced search capabilities, including powerful fielded searching, word stemming, proximity searching and search term weighting. SumoBrain expanded services include customized programs for document delivery.