Link to Internet Sources for Chemical Patent Searching

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SIRCh: Selected Internet Resources for Chemistry

Contents 1 Free Patent or Trademark Databases 2 Search Sites Requiring Registration 3 Commercial Patent Databases 4 Patent Classification, Country, and Kind Codes 5 Introduction to Patents 6 Miscellaneous

Free Patent or Trademark Databases

• USPTO patent databases (bibliographic, citation, and full text data, 1976-)
• USPTO Patent Application Information Retrieval Search patent application status by patent number.
• USPTO Trademarks Page
• WIPO's Intellectual Property Digital Library
• PCT Advanced Search (front page data w/ drawings, 1997-)
• esp@cenet (has full pdf images of patents, including US)
• DEPATISnet (especially good for German patents)
• FreePatentsOnline Free Patent Searching from US 4000000. Updated as new patents are published by the USPTO.
• IP Newsflash Search for patent families based on INPADOC data.

Search Sites Requiring Registration

• Delphion
• SurfIP (offers access to multiple patent and other sources; International Patent Office of Singapore)
• WikiPatents (a public community that reviews US patents and pending patent applications)

Commercial Patent Databases

• BEILSTEIN’s Hidden Treasures: Old Patents (STN)
• COS US Patents database (US patents, 1976-)
• Derwent
• MicroPatent
• Dialog Corporation
  • Database list
  • Smart Tools for Intellectual Property
• STN International
  • STN Patent Forum
  • Database list
  • How to Search for Patent Information in the WPINDEX File (STN Quick Reference Card)
• Questel
  • Database Catalogs
  • QPAT
• Paterra (machine translation of Japanese patent information)

Patent Classification, Country, and Kind Codes

• US Patent Class Definitions and Classification Manual
  • USPTO
  • COS (may be out of date)
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  • International Classifications
  • IPC ed. 7 (web)
• Derwent (Thomson):
  • Coding and Classification Database
  • Kind Codes (patent specification descriptors: "type" or "kind" codes)
  • Patent Assignee Codes
• Chemical Abstracts Service
  • Patent Coverage in Chemical Abstracts
  • Country Code and Year List for Patent Countries Covered
  • Kind Code List for Patents Covered
• Netmark
  • Country Codes

Introduction to Patents

• Web Patent Searching Tutorial-Search by Patent Number (University of California, San Diego Science & Engineering Library)
• Derwent's Information About Patents
• What Every Chemist Should Know About Patents (Le-Nhung McLeland for the ACS)
• What a Chemist Needs to Know About Patent Law (ACS slide presentation)

Miscellaneous

• IP webguide (European Patent Office)
• Patents and Other Links (British Library)
• Intellectual Property Law: Patents (Yahoo)
• Patent Information Users' Group
• Patent Handout from the ACS CINF WORKSHOP: Teaching Chemical Information, August 18, 2002, Boston (Silvia Lee)
• Select Bibliography on Patents
• Intellectual Property Mall (Franklin Pierce Law Center)
• Patents (Swain Library, Stanford University)

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