Links
Patent Offices:
Canada European Patent Office (general EPO site) European Patent Registrar (contains file wrappers for European filed applications) Great Britain Japan UKAustralia USPTO (recent patent office related notices) USPTO Global Patent Search (search Chinese and other foreign patents)
Free Patent Searchable Databases:
Europe’s networkUSPTO Google Patents IP.com InnovationQ Plus
Patent Lens Google Patent Search TACSY (WIPO) CAMBIA
Freepatentonline (fast patent searching with PDF downloading) WIPO (PCT)
WIPO Gold (one stop searching for patents, trademarks, domain names, etc)
Neifeld (good listing of databases as well as laws) Wiki Patents (reviews and rates patents)
Patent Family Searching:
EPO Common Citation Document EPO Common Citation Document Direct Link
Classification Searching:
Espacenet classificaiton search (enter a US Patent number in the smart search space, pick one of the results, click on one of the classification links you can find on your pulled up result which will bring you up to the CPC code scheme where you can select a seocnd hyperlink of relevant to your invention, this will bring you to a page with a “classificaiton search” tab in the uper left corner, checking the box of desired CPC codes automatically populates the “selected classification” fields, use the “copy to search form” to populate and “advanced search feature” window)
Fee Based Databases:
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PatBase (available for annual fee)
Foreign Patent Information:
CIPAInternational IP SocietyPCT at the WIPO
General Search Engines:
Googleyahoomsndogpile (searches multiple search engines) Searchenginewatch (lists other search engines) clearinghouse (excellent site for search engines by subject) Educationindex (listing of best search engines by subject)
Literature Search Databases
Google Books (search for through thousands of books) Google Scholar (use to find scholarly references) Microsoft Acadmic (allows search by author, conference, journal, organization, year, visualization) IP.com (an excellent resource to search literature that may invalid patents) Science.gov (searches over 60 databases and ofer 2200 selected websites from 15 federal agencies) MedRxiv (search pre-print publications)
Search the Deep Web
Deeperweb (search into the deep web) Dogpile Yippy
Specialized Prior Art Databases:
Antibodies: Antibody Registry
Proteins/synonyms: Gene Card (searches genes/proteins of interest) IHOP (semilar to Gene Card. Very good search for proteins and the like to obtain synonyms) Brenda (enzyme database)
Clinical Trails: FDA (good for searching clinical trial information and product approval)
Chemical Searching: PubChem Project (from NIH) Chem spider
Translations: SIPO Machine Translations (chinese to English). Advanced Insutrial Property network
Paid (Professional) Search Companies: Cardinal IP Patent & Trademark SVC Onsite Patent Services Express Search
Immunology: IMGT (International ImMuoGeneTics Information System; various databases and tolols)
Patent Offices: Australlia Canada European Patent Office (general EPO site) European Patent Registrar (contains file wrappers for European filed applications) Great Britain Japan UKAustralia USPTO(recent patent office related notices) USPTO Global Patent Search (search Chinese and other foreign patents)
Free Patent Searchable Databases: Europe’s networkUSPTO Patent Lens Google Patent SearchTACSY (WIPO) CAMBIA India patents
Freepatentonline (fast patent searching with PDF downloading) WIPO (PCT)
WIPO Gold (one stop searching for patents, trademarks, domain names, etc)
Literature Search Databases
Google Books (search for through thousands of books) Google Scholar (use to find scholarly references) Microsoft Acadmic (allows search by author, conference, journal, organization, year, visualization) IP.com (an excellent resource to search literature that may invalid patents)
General Search Engines:
Googleyahoomsndogpile (searches multiple search engines) Searchenginewatch (lists other search engines) clearinghouse (excellent site for search engines by subject) Educationindex (listing of best search engines by subject)
Specialized Prior Art Databases:
Proteins/synonyms: Gene Card (searches genes/proteins of interest) IHOP (semilar to Gene Card. Very good search for proteins and the like to obtain synonyms) Brenda (enzyme database)
Chemical Searching: PubChem Project (from NIH)
Translations: SIPO Machine Translations (chinese to English). Advanced Insutrial Property network
Paid (Professional) Search Companies: Cardinal IP Patent & Trademark SVC Onsite Patent Services Express Search
Online Thesauri, Dictionaires: You should always find synonyms for keys words relevant to your invention when conducting your prior art search)
Hyperdictionary OneLook the free dictionary Thesaurus
Online encyclopedias
Answers.comAnswers.com (requires registration) Credo
Neifeld (good listing of databases as well as laws) Wiki Patents (reviews and rates patents)
Patent Family Searching:
EPO Common Citation Document EPO Common Citation Document Direct Link
Classification Searching:
Espacenet classificaiton search (enter a US Patent number in the smart search space, pick one of the results, click on one of the classification links you can find on your pulled up result which will bring you up to the CPC code scheme where you can select a seocnd hyperlink of relevant to your invention, this will bring you to a page with a “classificaiton search” tab in the uper left corner, checking the box of desired CPC codes automatically populates the “selected classification” fields, use the “copy to search form” to populate and “advanced search feature” window)
Measurement Databases
Asknumbers (great tool for finding units having similar values in categories such as weight, lenght, pressure, size conversion, etc).
PhysiologyWeb (Percent solutions calculator). PhysiologyWeb % solutions calculator (convert to w/v, w/w and v/v)
Sequence Alignment
Blast ExPASy Alignment tool (compare two amino acid sequence with 1 letter code) SMS sequence Manipulation (convert 3 letter code to single letter code) . SMS sequence Manipulation (convert single letter code to three letter code)
Non-Patent Literature (NPL)
Google News (can limit selection such as to technology) Flickr (most popular photo sharing stie on the web. Includes owners, dates picture taken and uploaded) Print You Tube Videos Wayback Machine (digital archive of sites on the WWW captured as they appeared at particular points in time.)
–Chemical structure searching: SciFinder
Board of Patent Appeals:
Patent Board Ferret (searches for decisions handed down by the Patent Trial & Appeals Board (PTAB) –very useful can search by text, application/patent #)
Chemical based searching
CAS Registry Derwent world MARPAT®®
Protein and Nucleic acid searches
QuestelDialogGlobal Art MicroPatent Lexis Westlaw DelphionIAMcafe IP
PatBase (available for annual fee)
Foreign Patent Information:
CIPAInternational IP SocietyPCT at the WIPO
Design Patent Search