Research Guides: Patents and Trademarks: Patent Databases

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USPTO Patent Public Search
U.S. only coverage
The Patent Public Search tool is a new web-based patent search application that replaces legacy search tools PatFT and AppFT. Patent Public Search has two user selectable modern interfaces that provide enhanced access to prior art.

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Google Patents
Global coverage
Google Patents includes over 120 million patent publications from 100+ patent offices around the world, as well as many more technical documents and books indexed in Google Scholar and Google Books, and documents from the Prior Art Archive. See instructions for searching Google Patents.

PitchBook
Company profiles include active, pending, expiring, and inactive patents; top patent technology (CPC codes); and citation counts.

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CB Insights
Company profiles include granted and ungranted patent applications, as well as patent trends graphs that allow users to analyze patent activity by volume and time.

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BCC Research
Industry reports addressing very specific technological niches across most high-tech and healthcare industry sectors. Most industry reports include a patent analysis/landscape section.

Web of Science: Derwent Innovations Index
Combines unique value-added patent information indexed from various patent issuing authorities. Ability to search across clearly written patent titles and abstracts that highlight the novelty, use, advantage, and claims of each invention. Tip: Monitor an invention’s influence by using the “Cited Patent Search” tool to find patents that cite a given patent or patents.
Scopus
Scopus indexes patent records from five patent offices: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), European Patent Office (EPO), U.S. Patent Office (USPTO), Japanese Patent Office (JPO), and UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO.GOV.UK).
SciFinder
SciFinder, from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), indexes chemical patents from approximately 25 countries and patent organizations.
Reaxys
Reaxys provides properties and reactions data for organic, inorganic, and organometallic chemicals. Search newly published patents from 105 offices and 170 IPC classes with translation of non-English language abstracts and claims.
Materials Science & Engineering Collection
Includes the renowned METADEX, Copper and Polymer Library databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings and government publications.

Espacenet
Global coverage
Espacenet is produced by the European Patent Office (EPO). This worldwide database contains information on published patent applications and granted patents from over 100 patent-granting authorities, including Canada and the U.S.
PATENTSCOPE (WIPO)
Global coverage
Search international patents and access international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications and patent documents of participating patent offices.
Canadian Patents Database
Search for granted patents and publicly available patent applications in Canada since August 1978.
Australian Patent Search
Search granted patents and patent applications from Australia.