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PCT
database (1997 - present, free searching and
front page display)
http://pctgazette.wipo.int/
The PCT database is provided by WIPO
(World Intellectual Property Organization) which is an intergovernmental
organization and one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations.
WIPO is responsible for the promotion of the protection of intellectual
property throughout the world through cooperation among States, and for
the administration of various multilateral treaties dealing with the legal
and administrative aspects of intellectual property. There were 171 state
members in WIPO in August
1998.
The database contains the
first page data (bibliographic data, abstract and drawing) of all
published PCT
(Patent Cooperation Treaty) applications since January 1, 1997, updated
weekly. There are two ways to access the database: Guest and Account. For
Guest access, click on the Search or Browse button and enter: Username:
guest & Password: guest. For Account access (to create a
new account if you don't have an account, it is free of
charge), simply click on the Search or Browse button and enter your
own name and password. With an account access, a search query history is
maintained across connections. There will be a VIEW IMAGES button on the
displayed front pages of hit-list cases if the full text of the patent is
available. Online help on the PCT Database search is available on the
site.
PCT applications published
before 1997 may be consulted on the European Patent Office's esp@cenet
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Europe's Network Patent Databases -
esp@cenet (1997 - present) free searching and
full text)
http://ep.espacenet.com/
The esp@cenet is a free service on the internet provided by the European
Patent Organisation through the EPO (European Patent Office) and
the national offices of its members states: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hellenic Republic, Ireland, Italy,
Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
and United Kingdom.
The database
contains European patents since Oct. 1997 and world patents published by
WIPO (The World Intellectual Property Org.) since Nov. 1997, as well as
Japanese patents since 1980. For individual European countries'
patents, go to the esp@cenet, UK
site.
The esp@cenet can also
be used to find English-language abstracts of documents in the European
Patent Office's in-house databases of patents from over 50 countries
throughout the world from 1970 which covered full text of EPO, France,
Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States and WIPO patents,
abstracts and bibliographic data of Chinese and Japanese patents, and
Bibliographic data these countries: Argentina, ARIPO, Australia, Austria,
Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Ellas, Eurasian Patent Office, Finland,
GDR, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Korea, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, The
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, OAPI, Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Soviet Union, Spain,
Turkey, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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IBM Intellectual Property Network
(free searching and full text and front page
display)
http://www.delphion.com.
Intellectual Property Network (IPN) is a free IBM patent site provided by
IBM (International Business Machines
Corporation)
The database
contains:
- United States patents (US): 1971-present & updated weekly. Full
text / full image.
- European patents - applications (EP-A): 1979-present, updated
weekly. Front page & claims / full images.
- European patents - issued (EP-B): 1980-present, updated weekly.
Front page & claims / Full images
- WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) PCT publications
(WO): 1990-present, updated weekly. Front page & claims / full
images
- Patent Abstracts of Japan (JP): 1976-present, updated weekly. Front
page & claims / Representative image
In simple keyword search,
it offers Alternative Searches by patent number, Boolean text. In Advanced
Text, it allows for multiple field searching. US patents can be browsed by
specific classifications through which, you can identify topics and
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IBM
IP Network for Business (fee-based)
https://www.delphion.com
IBM IP Network for Business is a fee-based. IBM patent site provided by IBM (International Business Machines
Corporation). The Intellectual Property Network for Business provides
users with all the advantages of the IBM Intellectual Property Network
(IPN), adding heightened capabilities designed specifically to meet users'
business needs.
The Intellectual
Property Network for Business contains same data as IBM free database -
IBM Intellectual Property Network does. This database offers numerous
patent-search enhancements such as:
- Ability to search across all patents -- U.S. patents, WO
applications, EP-A and EP-B -- with a single query, selecting AND/OR
sorting fields users want to see,
- Full-text searching of U.S. patents; searching on individual fields,
or combining fields with Boolean operators,
- Capability of viewing more than 40 million document pages-- entire
scanned documents of U.S., EPO, and PCT patents, and thumbnail images of
all document front pages--using a standard Web browser,
- Capability of downloading high-quality (300 DPI) patent image files
(PDF or TIFF), etc.
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Derwent World
Patents Index (DWPI) (fee-based)
http://www.derwent.com/worldpatentsindex/index.html
DWPI is fee-based database provided by Derwent Information, a specialist in
scientific, technical and patent information has provided vital
information to companies and research institutes across the world for over
40 years.
DWPI is the world's
most comprehensive online database of engineering patent information,
which covers all chemistry from 1970 & some of them from 1963,
comprehensive coverage of all technologies since 1974 from 40 international
patent offices / organizations, including the PCT (Patent Co-operation
Treaty), US, Japan (100% Japanese coverage from 1996), major European
countries, Australia and New Zealand. Patent titles in DWPI have been
re-written to make them meaningful and help users to identify quickly
which patents relate to their work. Each abstract contains a 100 word
summary of the patent including the main uses and advantages of the
patented technology and a key drawing or diagram. Updated
weekly.
DWPI consists of three
parts: Chemical Patents Index (CPI, Sections A-M), Engineering Patents
Index (Sections P and Q), and Electrical and Electronic Patents Index
(EPI, Section S-X). They can be searched by Derwent classes, IPCs
(International Patents Classifications) and keywords. Full text patents
can be ordered online.
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MicroPatentWeb
Full Text (fee-based, full text) and MicroPatentWeb Front
Page (fee-based, front page only)
http://www.micropat.com/0/new_fulltext29809.html (full
text)
http://www.micropat.com/0/new_wps9809.html (front page
only)
MicroPatentWeb Full Text
and Front Page are fee-based databases provided by MicroPatent, a global
supplier of patent and trademark
information.
The MicroPatentWeb
Full Text database contains PCT patents (World patents, 1983-current
week), European Patents (EP, 1988-current week), United States patents
(1976-current week) and Japanese patents abstracts (1976-current update).
New US patents are available two days after issue from the U.S. Patent
Office. The database can sort search results by assignee or IPC
(International Patents Classifications), reprocess saved queries, and add
constraints, search on current data only or an entire file, navigate
quickly through records using "GOTO", and create reports to print or
email. The new SEARCH HISTORY enable you to build
a complex search that combines the results from simpler queries, using
Boolean operators and parentheses to combine queries. SEARCH HISTORY also
enable you to apply "OR" and "NOT" operators between the search fields
themselves and sort and edit your results, so that your review includes
only the most relevant full text records.
The MicroPatentWeb Front Page
databases contain PCT patents (World patents, 1978-present), European
Patents (EP, 1978-present), United States patents (1976-present) and
Japanese patents abstracts (1976-present). allows a range of current
awareness and prior art searches using keywords and simple Boolean
operators.
Subscribe daily (US$95
full text or US$35 front page only) or annually (US$7,500 full text or
US$2,500 front page only). Full text patent copies for downloading and
viewing (using the PatentImage
Viewer) or delivery via fax or mail.
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Australian
Patents (1979 - present, free searching and
display, but using stand-alone program)
http://www.IPAustralia.gov.au/services/S_soft.htm
The Australian Patents
database is provided by Australian Intellectual Property
Office.
There are 2 mainframe
computer patent databases, which allow you to access bibliographic
information of Australian patents: 1. Patent Administration System
(PatAdmin) -- information about Australian patents and patent applications
filed since January 1979. In some cases, details of patents filed before
that date are also available, but only a limited number of the data fields
can be used for searches; 2. Patent Indexing System (PatIndex) -- allows
you to search Australian patent applications and patents using one or more
International Patent Classification(IPC) codes.
It is using stand-alone Java
application program. You may access the mainframe databases by using
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Canadian Patent
Databases (1924 - present, free searching and
display)
http://Patents1.ic.gc.ca/intro-e.html
The Canadian Patent Database
is provided by Canadian
Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) .
The CIPO Canadian Patent Database
contains all Canadian patents (both applications and granted patents)
since 1924. For patent documents which are either laid-open applications
(an application that has been made available for public viewing but has
not yet been granted) or are patents granted since August 15, 1978, the
database contains bibliographic data, textual data (titles, abstracts and
claims) and image data. For patents granted prior to August 15, 1978, the
database contains bibliographic data, the text of titles only (no text of
abstracts and claims) and image data.
The database offers Basic,
Number, Boolean and Advanced searching. Online searching help
is available. Copies of patent documents can be ordered at [email protected]. The site
is available in English and French language versions.
Links to other services provided by CIPO are provided.
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Chinese
patent database (1985 - present, in Chinese, free searching and abstracts display)
http://202.96.46.252
The Chinese patent database is provided by SIPO -- State Intellectual
Property Office of the People's Republic of China.
The database contains abstracts
of all the Chinese patents, including patent applications and granted
patents since 1985 and the images since 1996. There are 11 fields can be
searched in: IPC (International Patent Classification), Title, Application
number, Application date, Patent number, Inventor, Abstract, etc.. The IPC
in Chinese is available from this site.
The test English
version of Chinese patent database is available from the SIPO site. It
contains only abstracts of Chinese invention patents from 1996 -
1997 at this stage.
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Italian patent
database (recent 1 year only, free searching and
brief display)
http://web.tin.it/fildata/ricercae.htm
The Italian patent database is provided by FILDATA, an Italian
patent information company offers documentation services at the Italian
Patent and Trademark office.
The
database contains recent one year of Italian patent applications.
Searching by Italian patent applications or title keywords in Italian. The
search results only the title, application number, application date and
applicant will be displayed. |
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Japan, PAJ
- Patent Abstracts of Japan (1993 - present, free searching and
display)
http://www1.ipdl.jpo-miti.go.jp/PA1/cgi-bin/PA1INIT?972591625148
The PAJ - Patent Abstracts of
Japan which is part of Industrial Property
Digital Library (IPDL), is provided by Japanese Patent Office (JPO) .
The PAJ is a searchable database
of Japanese patent applications abstracts and legal status, published by
the JPO. The date range covers from 1993.1.1 (publication date) and it
takes about 3 months from the publication of the applications to the
database. The database can be searched by Keywords, Applicant, Title of
invention, Date of publication of application, IPC (International Patent
Classification), Application number, Publication number, Patent number,
and so on. Available data include front page and drawings of the patents.
The online searching
help is available on this site. |
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Japan, PAJ database of
PATON (1976 - present, free searching and abstracts
display)
http://www.patonline.tu-ilmenau.de/index_en.html
The PAJ (Patent Abstracts of Japan) is provided by PATON - Patent information
center and online service, Technical
University of Ilmenau, Germany, produces several patent databases such
as GlobalPat (WO, EP, US, DE, FR and other patents), Patent Abstracts of
Russia, German patent, and so on.
The PAJ database of PATON contains the textual information from the
CD-ROM-Series "Patent Abstracts of Japan (PAJ)", which is published
monthly by the JPO. It contains bibliographic data and the English
translation of the edited version of Japanese patent applications without
foreign priority. Patent applications, which are based on a non-Japanese
priority, are not recorded. There are two databases: PAJ Backfile (1976 to
1993) and PAJ Frontfile (updated monthly with approx. 5 months delay).
The database can be searched by
Keywords, International Patent Classification (IPC), Patent applicant
(PA), Inventor (IN), Patent number (PN), Date of publication of
application (PD), Application date (AD), First priority date (PR), etc..
Online help is available.
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New
Zealand patents (free searching & title
display)
http://www.iponz.govt.nz/search/cad/DBSSITEN.main?p_access_no=&p_option=IPSEARCH
The New Zealand patents
database is provieded by the Intellectual
Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ), a business unit in the
Ministry of Commerce.
Information
contained in the database accessible through this site has been taken from
files held at the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand. The
official trade marks, patents and designs registers are available from
IPONZ. |
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Russia, Patent Abstracts
of Russia (1994 - present, free searching &
abstracts display)
http://www.patonline.tu-ilmenau.de/index_en.html
The Patent Abstracts of
Russia is provided by PATON - Patent information
center and online service, Technical
University of Ilmenau, Germany, produces several patent databases such
as GlobalPat (WO, EP, US, DE, FR and other patents), Patent Abstracts of
Japan, German patent, and so on.
The database contains front page of Russian patent applications and
Russian patents in English since 1994. It can be searched by Keywords,
IPC-main notation (ICM), Patent Assignee (PA), Inventor (IN), Patent
number (PN), Date of publication of application (PD), Application date
(AD), Country code (CC), Document type (DT)e.g.:A1 for Russian patent
applications, C1 for Russian patents, First priority date (PRD), etc..
Online help is available on this site. |
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Singapore
Patents (1938 - present, fee-based)
http://www.epatents.gov.sg/default_redirect.asp
The Singapore patents
database is provided by the Intellectual Property Office of
Singapore, which is a department under the Ministry of Law. It is
responsible for the administration of the Trade Marks Act 1998 and the
Patents Act (Cap. 221). The Office is also a receiving office for
international applications for patents filed under the Patent Cooperation
Treaty.
The system allows the
public to make enquiries to the database containing all patent
applications filed with the Registry (for which the bibliographic
information has been published) and all granted or registered patents
since 1938. It allows access to the bibliographic information of a
particular patent application or patent using the application number, the
P-Number or, in the case of a registered patent, the United Kingdom or
European Patent Number. It also allows searches on the database on name of
proprietors or inventors, and searches on the International Patent
Classification (IPC) Class. |
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UK
Patents - esp@cenet, UK site (1996 - present, free searching and abstracts display)
http://gb.espacenet.com/
The UK patents Database -
esp@cenet, UK site is provided by the UK Patent Office. It has the same
interface as the Europe's Network Patent Databases - esp@cenet on
European Patent Office site mentioned above. The difference between
esp@cenet on the UK Patent Office site and esp@cenet on the European
Patent Office site is that one can only search for European patents or
world patents on the European site and one can search not only European
patents or world patents, but also individual European countries' patents
including GB patents.
The
database contains the bibliographic data and images of Great Britain (GB)
patent applications published by the UK Patent Office, since 5 June 1996.
It also contains other individual EPO member state national patents;
European patents; world patents published by WIPO (The World Intellectual
Property Org.) since Nov. 1997, Japanese patents since 1980, as well as
patents from other countries worldwide. Limited in both search terms and
in how they can be entered. Images can only be seen with Adobe Acrobat
3.x.
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US, USPTO Web Patent
Database (1976 - present, free searching and
full text)
http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
USPTO Web Patent Database is a free US full text patents database provide
by USPTO - United States Patent and
Trademark Office.
The USPTO Web
Patent Database contains full text of U.S. patents (text and images) from
1976 to the present. The database can be searched by patent number, title
and abstract keywords, assignee and other fields. Offers keyword Boolean
searching and allows specific year ranges to be searched.
Full-page images can be accessed
from each patent's full-text display by clicking on the Images
button at the top of the patent full-text display page. If you have a
properly installed G4 TIFF image viewer (international standard CCITT
Group 4 (G4) compression) or plug-in, this will bring up the full-page
image of the first page of the patent along with navigation buttons for
retrieving the other pages of the document. These buttons include buttons
for the identifiable sections of each patent: Front Page, Drawings,
Specifications, Claims, Certificates of Correction (if any), and
Reexaminations (if any).
The
Bibliographic Database is also available from this site for rapid
searching for front-page information of the US patents. Both the Full-Text Database Help and
the Bibliographic
Database Help are available online. |
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US Patent and
Trademark Office. Official Gazette. (1964 - present, free searching / browsing and display )
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/og/
The Official Gazette is provided by USPTO - United States Patent and
Trademark Office.
The Official
Gazette is published each Tuesday to announce those patents being issued
and those trademarks being registered or published for opposition. The
Official Gazettes are composed of numerous sections. The front section
consists of the text of regular and special notices, and is common to both
the Patent and Trademark OGs. This is the material which can be found on
this site. |
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US, MicroPatentWEB
(fee-based, but US Online Gazette is free of
charge)
http://www.micropat.com/og/front.html (US
Online Gazette)
The US Online
Gazette (USPTO Official Gazette), which is part of MicroPatentWEB site,
contains fully summary information including abstracts and an exemplary
claim, for each of the approximately 2,500 new US patents issued each
week. The MicroPatentWEB site is provided by MicroPatent, a global
supplier of patent and trademark information. For information of
MicroPatentWEB, please go to MicroPatentWEB Fulltext and
MicroPatentWEB FrontPage under the International Patent
Databases on this page. |
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US Patent Citation
Database (1975 - present, update weekly, fee-based)
http://patents.cos.com/
The US Patent Citation Database is provided by Community of Science (COS), a network of
scientists and research organizations on the World Wide Web and currently
works with 500,000 scientists, 800 universities, R&D corporations, and
government agencies.
The US
Patent Citation Database is comprehensive bibliographic database
containing records of all US patents issued since 1975. Search "front
page" information about each patent by number, dates, assignee, inventor,
title, abstract, exemplary claims for recent years, U.S. Patent
Classification (USPC) and International Patent Classification (IPC). In
addition, the database tracks the "lineage" of each patent - how each
patent cites previous patents or is cited by subsequent ones. The database
is update weekly.
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Agricultural
Biotechnology Patents (1994 - 1996, free browsing /
searching and some full text)
http://www.nal.usda.gov/bic/Biotech_Patents/
The Agricultural Biotechnology Patents, which is part of Biotechnology
Information Resource (BIC) web site is provided by National Agricultural Library (NAL) of
the US Department of Agriculture
(USDA). It lists US agricultural biotechnology patents from 1994 to
1996 which can also be searched via the NAL
Biotechnology Patent Materials site. The patents published in 1994
& 1995 are full text available. |
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Chemical
Patents Plus (1971 - present, free searching,
but need to register.)
http://casweb.cas.org/chempatplus/
The Chemical Patents Plus (CPP) provided by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is full
text U.S. patent database covering chemistry from 1971. Full text of all
issued U.S. patents on Tuesdays will be available from Chemical Patents
Plus by Thursday morning, and page images become available incrementally
by the end of the day.
The CPP
contains complete patent page images from 1993, and many JAVA-rotateable
3D chemical structures, from CAS. The database is useful for patents on
substances because it can be searched by standard CAS fields: Registry
Number, indexing terms and other fields. Searching and display of
abstracts and titles are free but need a CAS account (user ID and
password). Other patent and related data may be displayed for certain prices.
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Cooling Systems Patent
Information (free, title browsing
only)
http://www.evanscooling.com/html/patent1.htm
The Cooling Systems Patent Information site, provided by Evans Cooling Systems
Inc., lists all issued US patents on Evans cooling systems for
internal combustion engines from 1976. |
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DNA Patent Database
(DPD) (free searching and full text)
http://208.201.146.119/
The DNA Patent Database (DPD)
is a joint project of the Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of
Ethics and the Foundation for Genetic Medicine.
The DNA Patent Database
(DPD)enables users to conduct Boolean searches of the full text of the
patents and of delimited fields of all DNA patents issued by the United
States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). There is "Lookup" button which
can be used for looking up any word before doing a search, such as
keywords, names. The database can also be browsed by name and title from
the maximum number of 100 to 150,000. Click on here for the
database searching online help.
Patents included in the DPD were identified by virtue of their PTO
classification and the presence of keywords such as "DNA" within the body
of the patent. Each individual patent claim has been coded into groups
that relate to biological classification, function or application (e.g.
human origin, promoter and vaccine). Each patent entry is linked with the
affiliations of the inventors and assignees and a notation if the Unites
States government had involvement in the underlying research. The intent
of this database is to provide information on some of the most fundamental
policy questions in biotechnology.
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