Patents

In this tutorial you will learn about the different types of patents, how patents relate to inventions, what makes an idea patentable, and the parts of a patent.

This tutorial explains the benefits of using patents in your research and how to search using Google Patents in conjunction with the USPTO Patent Database.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks.

An open global cyber infrastructure to make the innovation system more efficient and fair, more transparent and inclusive. It serves many of the patent documents in the world as open, annotatable digital public goods that are integrated with scholarly and technical literature along with regulatory and business data.

CIPO's Canadian Patent Database allows you access 150 years of patent descriptions and images.

Searches through patent documents filed with the European Patent Office, along with 81 other jurisdictions.

Searches through international patent applications along with patent documents from a large number of national patent offices.

Allows for full-text searching of patent grants and applications from the United States and several other major jurisdictions.