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)

 India patents     Taiwan 

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

Global Dossier

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)

Search the Deep Web

Deeperweb (search into the deep web)  Dogpile   Yippy

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)

Clinical Trails:  FDA (good for searching clinical trial information and product approval)

Chemical Searching:  PubChem Project  (from NIH)

Antibody CDR Annotation/numbering (NovoPro) (will find CDRs and FRs in a protein sequence)

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   ProQuest Dialog

Plant Patents:

Data Base Searching:

UPOV Plant Variety Database  (global DB; more than 1 million variety entries; can use this to find competitors or even collaborators; information in which company the plant production occurs)

Application: (See drafting and filing your patent application)