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Google Developers team announce Patent Search API. Here's small excerpt from the official message:

«We are pleased to announce the newest member in the AJAX Search API family - the Patent Search API. This API uses the Google Patent Search service and gives you the ability to search over 7 million patents.

Using the API is easy. First load the API into your page using the AJAX API Loader

google.load("search", "1");

Now schedule your startup code to run once the DOM is ready. This is easy to do by using the google.setOnLoadCallback() method. This will call the function you specified once the DOM is ready.

google.setOnLoadCallback(onLoad, true);

You are now ready to use the Patent Search API methods. If you are using the basic search control you would need to do the following:

var searchControl = new GSearchControl();

var ps = new GpatentSearch()

searchControl.addSearcher(ps);»

Source: Google AJAX Search API blog.