Patents: Search Patents

Find Keywords--Brainstorm

What are we looking for?

Ask 4 Basic questions:

1. Find keywords to use with the Index to US Patent Classification.
2. Check the Manual of Classification.
3. Read Class and Subclass definitions.
4. Retrieve and Browse Patent Titles and Abstracts
5. Retrieve and review all patent documents within relevant classifications.
6. Study Relevant Patent Documents.
7. Check References and previously published documents.

United States Patent & Trademark Office  http://www.uspto.gov

espacenet http://worldwide.espacenet.com/

Canadian Intellectual Property Office  http://cipo.gc.ca/

Japanese Patent Office http://www.jpo.go.jp/

World Intellectual Property Organization  http://www.wipo.org and Patentscope

Google Patents  http://patents.google.com

Freepatentsonline http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

These specialized databases contain patent information

SciFinder Scholar  (WVU users only)

Use Chemical Abstracts to seach for chemical patents and limit to patents.

Electronic Orange Book

Specialized FDA database for Drug Patents and the extension of their terms.

This YouTube playlist,Searching Patents using Classification,  was created to assist you in learning how to search patents. Most are less than 2 minutes.    For further assistance contact Marian Armour-Gemmen.