Patents, Technical Reports, and Standards: Patents
General guide on how to find Patents, Technical Reports, and Standards
Databases
- Derwent innovations index This link opens in a new windowThe world's most comprehensive database of international patent information from more than 40 patent-issuing authorities with added value to the patent literature including Descriptive Titles, Abstracts, Patent Family, Derwent Class Codes, Derwent Manual Codes, and Company Codes. Covers over 10 million basic inventions and 20 million patents.
- EspacenetInternational and U.S. patents
- U.S. Patent Search (USPTO)Search patents from 1790 - today and applications since 2001
- Google Patent SearchSearch the full-text of U.S. patents.