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Patents
Databases HomeCoverage:
Varies
Funded by:
Externally Funded
Description:
Europe's network of patent databases. Search published patent applications in their original language from Great Britain, other European countries, the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Org. (PCT)
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
Externally Funded
Description:
Search for patent applications in their original language from the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization (PCT). May search by keyword, application number or company name.
Coverage:
1790s - Present
Funded by:
Externally Funded
Description:
Google Patents provides access to United States Patents from the 1790s to the present. It includes 8 million patents and 3 million patent applications. Searchers can easily download the pdf of a patent found in the database.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
NJIT Library
Description:
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Coverage:
1997 - Present
Funded by:
Free
Description:
The PATENTSCOPE database provides access to the international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications in full text format on the day of publication, as well as to patent documents of participating national and regional patent offices. The information may be searched by entering keywords, names of applicants, international patent classification and many other search criteria in multiple languages.
Coverage:
Varies
Funded by:
Externally Funded
Description:
US Patents (Freepatentsonline) - provides fast, easy-to-use access to millions of United States patents which may be downloaded as PDF files. Patents 4,000,000 and later are fully searchable while most patents before 4,000,000 exist only as images.
Coverage:
1790 - Present
Funded by:
Externally Funded
Description:
United States Patents. The full-text of patents are available free of charge. A TIFF viewer will be necessary to print graphics