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PATENT INFORMATION
RESOURCES

  • Current Patents
    Current Patents was established in 1998 to provide patents-based competitive intelligence to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector. Now part of Thomson Scientific, we provide the fastest patent alerting service available, to keep our clients as up to date as possible. We also offer more in-depth information from our Web based database products.

  • Delphion
    Provided by Thomson Scientific, D    elphion     gives you the patent collections & searching options you need to see inside the world's important patent databases.

  • Dialog
    Searchable content on Dialog services includes articles and reports from thousands of real-time news feeds, newspapers, broadcast transcripts and trade publications, plus market research reports and analyst notes providing support for financial decision-making, as well as in-depth repositories of scientific and technical data, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property data. Additional content areas include government regulations, social sciences, food and agriculture, reference, energy and environment, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and medicine. See Dialog Bluesheets for a comprehensive list of     are written guides for every database on the Dialog® service.

  • DrugTerm
    The Australian Pharmaceutical Patent Term Extensions Database (DrugTerm) provides comprehensive coverage of all Australian patents granted extensions of term under section 70 of the Australian Patents Act. This database is produced and maintained by IP Organisers Pty Ltd, one of Australia's leading intellectual property research companies. IP Organisers also produces IP Menu™, the free, global guide to intellectual property resources on the internet. IP Organisers is associated with the leading Australian and New Zealand Patent and Trade Mark Attorney firm, Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick.

  • DEPATISnet
    DEPATISnet is a service provided to you by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office. You can conduct online searches in patent publications from around the world stored in the database of DEPATIS, the in-house patent information system of the GPTO. When a search has been performed, the result list will be displayed.
  • Edital
    Edital's offer online resources of worldwide patent (E-Pat) and trademark (E-Mark) laws.
  • Esp@cenet
    Esp@cenet provides access to the bibliographic data of all patents published in the preceding two years by any member state of the European Patent Organisation, as well as by the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). In addition, full-page facsimile images of documents are also retrievable to facilitate more detailed analysis of these documents.
  • IBM Technical Disclosures
    The IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletins (TDB) hosted on the IBM Intellectual Property Network contains TDB from 1958. Technical Disclosure Bulletins are published as defensive disclosures of inventions that did not actually become patents. The January 1998 issue was the final issue of the IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin published by the IBM Corporation. IBM technical disclosures published after February 1998 will be available for a fee through Research Disclosure. IBM technical disclosures published in the IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin up to September 1997 are now viewable online from Delphion's Intellectual Property Network Web site.
  • IFI Claims® Patent Database
    The collection of databases known as CLAIMS® represents the most reliable, text-searchable, and value-added databases of U.S. patents in the world. IFI CLAIMS® Patent Databases are available on Dialog, STN International and Questel•Orbit.
  • IP.com
    IP.com was founded to fill a growing void in the tools available to the intellectual property community. Our initial product, the IP.com Prior Art Database, was created to provide companies with a fast and effective, centralized outlet for publishing and searching technical disclosures. Since its inception, the IP.com Prior Art Database has continued to grow, attracting such high-profile clients as IBM, General Electric, Motorola, Abbott Laboratories, and Eastman Kodak (to name a few).
  • IP Menu™
    Provided by IP Organisers, IP Menu™ is a free, global guide to intellectual property resources on the internet. IP Organisers is associated with the leading Australian and New Zealand Patent and Trade Mark Attorney firm, Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick.
  • INPADOC
    The INPADOC Database is produced by the European Patent Office and is hosted on many databases including Questel-Orbit, Dialog and STN Networks. Included are PFS ( Patent Families) and PRS (Legal Status Information), produced by the EPO, the largest patent databases in the world in terms of both the countries and time-span covered. One deals with all patent documents applied in 65 patent offices worldwide, the other with the legal status of patents (are they in force or not) in 22 patent offices. Simultaneous family/legal status searching.
  • INPADOC via Government of India's Patent Website
    The free (subscription required) INPADOC database hosted in India, by the National Informatics Centre of the Government of India.
  • IP Newsflash
    A very useful website for intellectual property professionals. It displays current caselaw, notices of patent and trademark offices and press from all over the world. And you can customize the content to suit your needs when registered (free).
    IP Newsflash is a non-profit website, which is maintained by Rolf Claessen (openBC profile, vCard) as a hobby. Rolf Claessen holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the State University of New York and works for v. Kreisler Selting Werner.
  • MICROPAT
    MicroPatent is the world’s leading source for online patent and trademark information. Combining advanced technology with the most comprehensive, up-to-date IP information, MicroPatent delivers a complete intellectual property solution—whether it’s online searching, document delivery, patent analysis, file histories, or professional search assistance.
  • Patent Lens
    CAMBIA's Patent Lens is a free public resource comprising the full text of US, European, Australian patents and applications, and PCT Applications, together with INPADOC/OPS/PAIR status and family information. Very fast searching and no limit PDF downloads. As of July 2007, the collection contains more than 7.2M patent documents. The Lens also offers Technology Landscapes of key technology fields in the life sciences, and comprehensive tutorials and references.
  • Patents | Oncloud8
    Patents | Oncloud8 provides immediate batch-downloaded PDF-stitched EPO documents (US and international) for $0.25per patent. No software needs to be installed, there is no registration, and there are no membership fees.
  • Patent Search Express
    Patent Search Express uses the leading patent search technology to provide a worldwide search and an evaluation of your invention's patentability and marketability. Our revolutionary technology allows us to provide the lowest-cost worldwide patent search available. This service is managed by a major patent law firm and backed by PatentCafé.com, the most popular inventor's resource site. Patent Search Express clients range from individual inventors to Fortune 500 companies.
  • Patent Tracker
    Minesoft Patent Tracker is an Internet-based automatic patent monitoring service, which tracks changes to a variety of Patent Registers in Europe and North America. Patent Tracker also tracks changes to patent families. Patent Tracker delivers an alert direct to the client whenever new or changed information appears. Patent Tracker is based on public information provided by over 70 patent-issuing authorities. Patent Tracker helps busy patent information professionals in the regular task of checking the developments of patent families and their legal status.
  • PCT Electronic Gazette
    Provided by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the PCT Electronic Gazette contains data relating to PCT international applications published as PCT pamphlets from January 1997, and where applicable, republished from April 1998. Bibliographic data, abstracts, drawings and images of PCT pamphlets are provided for all published and republished international applications in the collection.
  • PCT Online File Inspection
    Provided by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), this service provides access to over one million published PCT international applications and to the latest bibliographic data and documents contained in the files of PCT international applications.
  • Questel-Orbit
    Questel-Orbit is a service dedicated to Intellectual Property information: patents, scientific and technical (sci-tech) information, trademarks and Internet domain names. Questel-Orbit Factsheets providing full database descriptions.
  • Research Disclosure
    Research Disclosure, or RD, is the unique international defensive publication service that allows the world's researchers, scientists and inventors to establish the state of the art. It provides an alternative to obtaining a patent at a fraction of the cost and time taken. In both paper Journal and Electronic database formats RD is the world's longest running, independent, industry standard prior art disclosure service with over forty years of searchable back files.
  • STN International
    STN International connects scientists, engineers and anyone who needs technical information to the world's most complete and authoritative databases. You can use STN with confidence because the system and the more than 200 databases it brings you are operated by some of the most respected scientific organizations in the world. STN Database Summary Sheets provide information you need to use the databases on STN.

  • SurfIP.com
    This is an Intellectual Property site for integrated and customised searching of various patent office databases (CA, EP, SG, TW, UK, US, WO) as well as web sources for IP information.   This site is a special project by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) in promoting IP information awareness and usage by harnessing IT power.

  • WizPatent
    The WizPatent Manager and WizPatent Express software provides for the searching and downloading of patents in both Text and PDF form from various public databases including USPTO and Espacenet.

  • Worldwide Intellectual Property Search (WIPS) Online Search
    WIPS Division offers patent information search services on the Internet by processing worldwide patents and putting them in its database. By effective management and handling of patent database, we provide users with reliable patent information with convenient functions and user-friendly searching environment. Focused on the Asian patent data as well as worldwide patent information, we provide US, EP, PCT, JP, KR, CN data including INPADOC data.

PATENT CLASSIFICATION
RESOURCES
  • International Patent Classification (IPC)
    "The Classification is periodically revised in order to improve the system and to take account of technical development. The current, eighth, edition of the IPC entered into force on January 1, 2006."
  • PATIPC
    Patent International Patent Classification is produced by WIPO and DPMA and is hosted on the STN Network. The database contains the English text of the International Patent Classification (IPC) for editions 1-7 and the German text of the IPC for editions 4-7.  Additionally, the database contains the Catchword Index (Stich- und Schlagwoerterverzeichnis) of edition 7 as provided by the DPMA. The Catchword Index is available in English and German.