august 17, 2008 - FreePatentsOnline to distribute SureChem Portal

Exclusive deal brings patent chemistry to FreePatents' 600,000 registered users

Baltimore, MD  –- FreePatentsOnline.com (FPO) announced this month that it has partnered with a leading provider of online chemical search and custom chemical structure databases to bring its users the ability to do free chemical searches.

“We are very excited to announce the partnership with Surechem and offer a truly unprecedented service.  Chemical search is a field that users are accustomed to paying for expensive per-search and/or subscription services and we are shaking things up with this new feature,” said Erik Reeves, CEO of FreePatentsOnline.com.

This exciting offering adds to the already robust feature set on FPO, such as cross-collection searching, portfolios and collaboration tools, saved searches and alerts, and advanced search techniques.  The partnership with Surechem extends FPO’s value proposition by adding content depth that even the paid patent search services do not offer.  Through Surechem’s engine on FPO, 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.

“Building on the infrastructure improvements we have made over the last two years, we have grown to having well over 500,000 registered users and have been able to maintain excellent performance, all the while adding value to our users such as free Chemical Search,” said Reeves.

See http://www.freepatentsonline.com/surechem for more information.