Australia - free online full-text patent searching

The patent resource Patent Lens has been extended to cover Australian patents. “This means that for the first time, the full text of Australian patents can be searched, viewed and printed at no cost, by anyone.” The Patent Lens already offered free full-text searching in US, Europe, WIPO patent documents, including their references to their status and counterparts in up to 60 countries. Over 115,000 Australian granted patents and over 580,000 patent applications are now part of the over 7 million documents in the Patent Lens’ collection.

Full-text searching means that searchers are no longer limited to the “front page” of patent information, such as the titles, patent numbers and inventors’ names, instead the complete text of the document can be searched.

Patent Lens is provided by CAMBIA, a non-profit organization based in Canberra.

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