On a slow day in hell, you can keep your home fires burning by getting all self-reflexive. Hence the ever-popular Company Names of Naming Companies name taxonomy.

Today’s exercise in self-reflexivity: Patent searching for “patent search” patents. Here’s a few to whet your whistle, from IP.com’s cool new Global Patent Search engine:

• Technical classification method for searching patents
• Web-based method and system for identifying and searching patents
• Method for searching patents utilizing IPC classification
• System and method for searching patents based on a hierarchical histogram
• Patent searching method and patent searching system using the same
• Method for inspecting patent search result
• Repetitive fusion search method for search system
• Data searching apparatus capable of searching with improved accuracy
• Method, apparatus, and system for searching based on filter search specification
• Patent searching program automatic installing refreshing system and method
• Reliability verification method of patent retrieval data
• Enhanced search results
• Dynamic image content search information managing apparatus
• System and method to enable searching across multiple databases and files using a single search
• Pay-per-patent-proof system and method
• Full text search system
• Multilingual patent information search system
• System and method of placing a search listing in at least one search result list
• Search system and method based on search condition combinations
• Using hyperbolic trees to visualize data generated by patent-centric and group-oriented data processing
• Patent searching method and patent searching system using the same
• Method for inspecting patent search result
• Expanded patent search
• System and method for searching patents using DNA fragment number
• Patent searching system and method
• System and server for providing information, user terminal device, contents display device and method
• Display method for patent search
• Patent retrieval method and system

OK, that’s enough fun for one night. Go out and try it yourself. While you’re at it, see if anyone has a patent already for the latest new invention you’ve been tinkering with in the basement.