Patents, Technical Reports, and Standards: Patents
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The 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
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- Google Patent SearchSearch the full-text of U.S. patents.
- PAIR: Patent Application Information RetrievalApplication status of pending patents
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