American Chemical Society
Teaching Chemical Information:
Tips and Techniques
— August 1998 —
Patent Databases on the Internet
- U.S. Patent Databases
- Full-Text Access
- Foreign Country Patent Databases
- Subject-Based Patent Databases
U.S. Patent Databases
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Official Gazette. (1995–)
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/og/ - The Official Gazette is published each Tuesday to announce those patents being issued and those trademarks being registered or published for opposition. Search or browse 1995–present. Provider: USPTO.
- U.S. Patents via IBM Patent Server (1974–)
http://www.patents.ibm.com/ibm.html - Provides access to the bibliographic data and text of all claims of over 2 million
patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from 1974 to present.
Also contains some patents issued during 1971–1973. Search by keyword, phrase,
and patent number; Boolean searches with patent number, title abstract, all claims,
assignee, inventors, and attorney/agent.
Scanned images of full-text are available for patents issued from 1974–present and can be displayed for free. All patent references are hyperlinked for citation searching. Classification codes are also hyperlinked to find similar patents granted. Provider: IBM.
- U.S. Patent Bibliographic Database (1976–)
http://patents.uspto.gov/ - A freely searchable database of front page information from US patents issued from January 1976–present. Provider: USPTO.
- STO’s Internet Patent Search System (1790–present)
http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html - Search all years of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Patent Databases using Subject Classification Codes. Abstracts for patents published between 1981–1989 are displayable. The data is exactly the same as the CASSIS CD-ROM sited in Patent Depository Libraries. Provider: Source Translation & Optimization (STO).
- The U.S. Patent Citation Database (1975–)
http://patents.cos.com/ - Search “front page” information about each patent since 1975: number, dates, assignee, inventor, title, abstract, exemplary claims for recent years, and U.S. and international classifications. In addition, the database tracks the “lineage” of each patent — how each patent cites previous patents or is cited by subsequent ones. Provider: Community of Science.
U.S. Patent Databases — Full Text Access
- U.S. Patents via IBM Patent Server (1974–)
http://www.patents.ibm.com/ibm.html - Provides access to the bibliographic data and text of all claims of over 2 million
patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from 1974 to present.
Also contains some patents issued during 1971–1973. Search by keyword, phrase,
and patent number; Boolean searches with patent number, title abstract, all claims,
assignee, inventors, and attorney/agent.
Scanned images of full-text are available for patents issued from 1974–present and can be displayed for free. All patent references are hyperlinked for citation searching. Classification codes are also hyperlinked to find similar patents granted. Provider: IBM.
- QPAT-US (1974–)
http://www.qpat.com/ - Search the front page information of all U.S. patents issued since 1974. Accessible at no cost to individuals who register with QPAT-US. Full text of all U.S. patents issued since 1974 (no images) can be searched and displayed to paying subscribers only. Provider: Questel-Orbit.
Foreign Country Patent Databases
- World Patent Search: US, EP and PCT (1976–)
http://www.micropat.com/ - Search the front page data of the three major patent authorities: US, EP and PCT (World Intellectual Property Organization) published from 1976 to the present. The exemplary drawing is also included! Free to search and display front page information. Fees are charged for the full-text. Provider: MicroPatent. This is a free trial.
- Canadian Patent Database
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_innov/patent/engdoc/cover.html - The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) welcomes you and invites you to try this searchable database of Canadian Patent Bibliographic data. The database contains issued patents and applications for patents that have been made available to the public from October 1, 1989 to the present. This database will be updated on a monthly basis. In the future, CIPO will be able to add patent abstracts, as well as provide data prior to October 1989.
- The European Patent Register on-line (EPIDOS) (Coming Soon)
http://www.european-patent-office.org/epidos/epr.htm - Provides information on all European and Euro-PCT patent applications. Records include bibliographic data, legal status information but no description of the invention (claims or abstracts). File is updated daily and information is available to online users 3–5 days after the action date.
- Italian Utility Models 1997 published applications (FILDATA Web Site)
http://web.tin.it/fildata/indexen.htm - FREE SEARCHES AMONG ITALIAN PATENT AND UTILITY MODEL APPLICATIONS
You can now search among Italian patent applications filed between January and June 1997. - Patent Abstracts of Japan (PAJ) Database
http://www2.jpo-miti.go.jp/ - Covers the period from 08-284901 to 09-172800 (1996–1997). Free trial access
Subject or Speciality Patent/Technology Transfer Databases
- Agricultural Biotechnology Patents
http://www.nal.usda.gov/bic/Biotech_Patents/ - Direct access to patents related to biotechnology (a service of the National Agricultural Library of the US Department of Agriculture).
- AIDS Patent Database
http://patents.uspto.gov/ - A freely searchable database of the full text and images of AIDS related patents issued by the US, Japanese and European patent offices.
- Chemical Abstracts Patents Plus (1975–)
http://casweb.cas.org/chempatplus/ - Free searching of fulltext U.S. patent documents from 1971, with complete patent page images from 1993, and many JAVA-rotateable 3D chemical structures, from CAS. Includes CAS Registry Numbers and CAS index terms. Free to search and to display titles and abstracts. $4.00/full patent.
- Fullerene Patent Database
http://www.godunov.com/Bucky/Patents.html - A comprehensive internet archive of patents related to buckyballs, nanotubes, and other fullerenes. By Dr. M.S. Dresselhaus, MIT.
- Knowledge Express Data Systems
http://www.KnowledgeExpress.com/ - Fee-based database packages specifically for technology transfer and new business development. Includes limited university and company inventions, databases of federally-funded research projects and federal lab inventions, SBIR grant winners, CorpTech and BioScan, a database of mergers & acquisitions, Derwent Patent Database, NASA Tech Briefs, Techno-l archives, etc. Accessible via dialup and Internet.
- Wacky Patent of the Month
http://colitz.com/site/wacky.htm