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Patents

The guide aims to provide reliable information on Patents.

Where to Search for Patents

Patent Office Databases

   Espacenet - (European Patent Office) offers free access to more than 80 million patent documents worldwide

   GCC Patent Office - Patent Office of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf. Offers a search for GCC patents.

   USPTO - United States Patents and Trademark Office full text database

   WIPO List of National Patent Databases

Other Patent Searching  and Downloading Tools

   FreePatentsOnline

   Google Patents

   Pat2PDF - Download U.S. patents (in PDF)  

   See-the-Forest - Patent analytics for US patents and applications

   USPTO Bulk Downloads: Patents

QU subscription databases that offer patent information

   LexisNexis Academic - Select Patent Search from box Search by Content Type

   SciFinder - (see e-resources page for instructions on registering and accessing SciFinder). Search by research topic or chemical structure 

   SCOPUS

   Web of Science  - Includes patents, as well as multidisciplinary coverage of journals and conference proceedings. You can do a cited reference search for a patent to find journal articles that have cited it. Also limit by document type = Patent.

Journal Finder

Google Patent Search

Google Patent Search

E-Journals

Tutorials on Searching for Patents

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