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.
Clearly Understood -www.clearlyunderstood.com
US patents and published US patent applications. After registering, multiple patents or
published patent applications may be requested at the same time. The PDF is provided with
no extraneous text or marking placed on the copies.
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.
Patents on Cloud 8 - patents.oncloud8.com
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.
PDF Patents - www.pdfpatents.com
Free (slow) or register and pay as you go ($1/each or cheaper).
Other Science Databases
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/
Wisconsin TechSearch - wts.wisc.edu/
Patent Searching
The Spire Project - www.spireproject.com/patents.htm
ClassClarify - www.classclarify.com
A software tool designed to aid researchers in using the USPTO’s Manual of Classification,
the tool examiners use to categorize patents. ClassClarify graphically represents the manual
and the relationships amongst the classes, it’s like a road map through the vast landscape of
prior art. Use it to understand how examiners and industry analysts research prior art, and
to perfect your searching skills.
Citation Bridge - www.metricsgroup.com/patentcitations/index.cfm Citation Bridge is a free search utility that lets you look up forward and backward US patent citations (also called US Patent References) on an individual patent, and search back and forth through citation generations. Find out who’s citing your patents and whom your patents are citing.
Patent Information Users Group - www.piug.org
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.
Other Patent Tools
- 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.
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