When Steve Arnold keynoted the Internet Librarian International conference in London last month, he mentioned he’d done a study of Google patents and talked about how difficult it was to find them because the company is so secretive. I think he mentioned it during the Tuesday night panel at Internet Librarian in Monterey as well. Now he’s got an order form on his Web site for a CD of the patents. Once you get to the site, click on Google Patent Collection. The CD costs $50 plus $8 for shipping and handling within North America.