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Patents

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Patents provide protection for inventors, enabling them to manufacture and profit from their inventions without fear of competition. Patents are usually granted for a limited time.

Click on the following link to browse the alphabetical subject index to the U.S. Patent Classification System.


Engineering Village restricted Engineering Village features access to Compendex and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database.
A handy guide to this database is located here.

Librarian's Comment: Select the USPTO option on initial search screen(at bottom left).

Esp@cenetPatent information service from the European Patent Office. Provides searching of worldwide patents.

Google Patent SearchDebuting in December 2006, Google's new patent search engine is a painless way to search and view patents issued in the U.S. from 1790 to the present (excluding recent applications). You can search for patents by keyword, patent number, title, inventor, assignee, classification (both U.S. and international), issue date, and filing date.

Unlike the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's database, you can easily view the patents in Google's engine without having to download a special viewer. In addition, click the "Download PDF" button on the Google page to download the patent in PDF format to your computer.



PAT2PDFThis new site enables you to convert a US patent to PDF format for easy downloading and printing. You need to have the patent number to use this site, so use it in conjunction with a patent search function or database.

Scopus restricted Scopus is a very large abstract and indexing database primarily covering scholarly literature in science and social science. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars. Scopus includes 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers. Coverage from 1995. Tutorial

RefWorks Info: Scopus will export marked citations directly into your RefWorks account. (You will be prompted to login.)

Librarian's Comment: More than 200 million patent records are indexed in Scopus. Choose the patent tab on the search results page. Links into USPTO and Esp@cenet databases to provide fulltext.

United Kingdom Patent Office

USPTO Patent DatabaseFull text for all classes of patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Includes graphics and indexing of all US patents from 1976-date.

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