Free Patent Databases

Free patents online - www.freepatentsonline.com
PDF or Tiff. Coverage: US patents published by the USPTO since patent number 4,000,000. Search interface: boolean or patent number.

Patents to PDF - www.pat2pdf.org
Coverage: All issued US patents. Can search multiple patent numbers at once.

European/PCT – www.epoline.org/portal/public/registerplus
Download PDF copies of PCT/EPO patents directly here.

PatentMatic – www.patentmatic.com
Enter patent number and it gives you a summary page with abstract and related patents and a link to download a PDF copy of the patent.
Coverage: “European (EP), United States (US), ‘World’ (PCT/WO) and Japanese (JP) patents.

BrainDex – www.braindex.com
PDF copies. US, PCT, EPO, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Russia, Austria and others.

Low Cost Patent Databases

Patent Fetcher – freepatentfetcher.com and patentfetcher.com
Offers patent publications in PDF format. Free US patents and applications. Foreign patent publications. (EP, WO, DE, JP, etc.) as well as faster and unlimited downloads of US patents and applications at 65 cents each.

Get The Patent - www.getthepatent.com
Files in “CPC” compressed format viewable in a free CPCLite viewer. Cost: $0.50 per patent. Patents from the USPTO, EPO, WIPO (PCT), Austira, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Spain, and Switzerland.

Patent Searching

PatentLens – http://www.patentlens.net/daisy/patentlens/patentlens.html
Free public resource for patent system navigation worldwide; search and retrieve the full-text of over 10 million patent documents from the U.S., Europe, Australia, and WIPO, as well as their status and counterparts in up to 70 countries.

The Spire Project – www.spireproject.com/patents.htm
Collection of links to useful free patent databases, national patent agency resources, commercial patent databases, and other related commercial services.

Patent Information Users Group – www.piug.org
Supports, assists, improves and enhance the success of patent information professionals through leadership, education, communication, advocacy and networking. Through international forums and discussions, it also promotes and improves the retrieval, analysis and dissemination of patent information.

Google Patents – www.google.com/patents
Provides for patent searching, from basic word searches to advanced categorical searches, for Issued U.S. Patents.

Other Patent Tools

PatTools

• Claim Chart Generator
• Patent Navigator
• Independent Claim Comparison Chart Generator
• Claim Tree Generator
• Patent Information Table Generator
• Patent-to-PDF Generator
• USPTO Patent Link Generator
• Search Assignment Tool
• Patent Summary

The Patent Place
Patent & Trademark Histories, Certified Documents, etc.

Quality Patent Printing
Quality Patent Printing is an established, full-service patent drawing company for drafting, corrections, trademarks, DNA sequences, design drawings, photographic patent drawings, foreign patent drawings and patent office services.

Australian Patent Guide A reference guide to the Australian Patent System.

PCT Applicant’s Guide A comprehensive reference guide for PCT Applicants in the International Phase.

Other Science Databases

STN on the Web - stnweb.cas.org Online technical and information service for scientists, engineers and information professionals, offers access to a collection of more than 200 databases in science and technology, including several general and specialized patent databases. It is operated in North America by Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society. Pricing varies widely depending on the database being searched, but a full price list can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat format.

High Wire Press - highwire.stanford.edu
A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1068 journals and 4,527,797 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1,812,146 articles free.

National Center for Biotechnology Information – www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information– all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science(U.S.) – www.pnas.org/ One of the world’s most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials; publishes cutting-edge research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. Available by subscription.

Wisconsin TechSearch – wts.wisc.edu/WTS research assistance includes on-line literature, patent, and trademark searches, with access to over 500 subject-specific database; can provide a list of articles or patents on a research subject of interest.

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