Searching for patents
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US Patent SearchSearch tool for searching all U.S. patents and published patent applications. Provides basic and advanced options.
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Multi-Step U.S. Patent Search StrategyFrom the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), outlines a suggested procedure for patent searching.
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US Patent Classification SearchSearch or browse the USPC (US Patent Classification) system.
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EspacenetSearch over 150 million patent documents from over 100 patent-granting authorities. Information on coverage is available.
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Espacenet Classification SearchSearch or browse the CPC (Cooperative Patent Classification) system.
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Canadian Patents DatabaseThis database lets you access 156 years of Canadian patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and study more than 2,570,000 patent documents.
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Google PatentsGoogle Patents includes over 120 million patent publications from 100+ patent offices around the world, as well as many more technical documents and books indexed in Google Scholar and Google Books, and documents from the Prior Art Archive.
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SciFinder This link opens in a new window
Search the chemical literature and related scientific publications. You may search by topic, author, company, CAS Registry Number, as well as by structure and reaction. Includes patents. For many chemical substances there are chemical/physical property data, including spectra. Publications cover more than 50 languages and date back to the early 1800s.
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ACS Committee on Patents and Related MattersIncludes the publication "What Every Chemist Should Know About Patents."
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Meet Your Librarian!
Jeremy Garritano
Science Librarian
Office: RLITC A40
Email: jeremy.garritano@trincoll.edu
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