Now this may be old news, but in case it is not- here is the Google Patents Search
Just go and search at
For example did you know that the PageRank Patent is assigned to Stanford ( which is the reason they have more money than err. many Universities combined…not a great football program though)
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=cJUIAAAAEBAJ
Or you can see the Slidehshare.net version ( which is Ironic since Google Docs is not good enough to share the Pdf as of yet)
Inventor: Lawrence Page
Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Primary Examiner: Uyen Le
Page Rank Patent of Google
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So the next time you have a bright idea on Sunday afternoon after some beers, check and see if you are the first one to think of it
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