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Interactive Coverage Map

This dynamic world map allows users to quickly find the known patent search systems that offer data coverage for a particular country.

Quick Table Comparisons

This tool allows for side-by-side comparison of the patent search systems that have been reviewed by Intellogist.

Best Practices

This webpage links to all the Intellogist wiki articles discussing best practices in patent research.

Resource Finder

This tool displays search systems, databases, publications, and websites grouped by technology area.

Dissertations: Canada, UK and Europe:

Dissertation Abstracts Online

Japanese Patent Research Tools

• JP — IPDL — Industrial Property Digital Library
• JP — PAJ — Patent Abstracts of Japan
• JP — AIPN — Advanced Industrial Property Network
• JP — AIPN — Online File Inspection System
• EPO EspaceNet — Search Entire Patent Database
• Delphion IP Network
• Patolis-e
• Patent Translations Inc
• Japanese Language Services Ltd

Indian Patent Research Tools

• http://india.bigpatents.org/
• Indian Patent Office — Search Inpadoc — Government of India Patent Office — Search Indian Patents
• http://www.indianpatents.org.in/db/db.htm — The database are quite user friendly and equipped with latest search tools and logical operations. Value addition has been done in the databases to make the information easily accessible.

Patent Information and Databases

The following are free resources:

• United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases
• European Patent Office (EPO) European Classification System Search
• German Patent Office
• United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO)
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• IP Australia Australian Patent Office
• Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
• Google Patents
• Patent Lens A free public resource for patent system navigation worldwide
• WikiPatents
• I-MAK Links to international patent offices and database
• SureChem International patent search for chemical structures - registration required
• FDA Orange Book Patent information for drugs sold in the US
• Patents.com Free US and EP Patent searching
• Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) - registration required
• Fresh Patents The latest US patent applications
• This is a resource available on a subscription basis: Micropatent Thomson Reuters patent information

Technology Databases

ABI/INFORM

• Dialog Coverage: 1971 - present, Full Text: 1991 — present
• STN Coverage: 1971 — present, Full Text: 1991 — present

Covers worldwide business and management issues.

Includes details on various aspects of business, including company histories, competitive intelligence, and new product development.

ACM Digital Library

ACM Coverage: Dates — vary, Full Text: Dates — vary

Citations and full text articles from ACM journals, newsletters, and conference proceedings.

Business & IndustryTM (B&I)

Dialog Coverage: 1994 — present, Full Text: 1994 — present

Facts, figures, and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, markets products for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level.

Business Wire

Dialog Coverage: 1999 — present, Full Text: 1999 — present

Full text of news releases issued by approximately 10,000 corporations, universities, research institutes, hospitals, and other organizations.

CSA Aerospace & High Technology Database

• Dialog Coverage: 1962 — present, Full Text: — N/A
• STN Coverage: 1962 — present, Full Text: — N/A

Provides references, abstracts, and controlled-vocabulary indexing of key scientific and technical documents.

Provides access to key scientific and technical documents covering aerospace R&D in over 40 countries.

Dialog Global Reporter

Dialog Coverage: 1997 — present, Full Text: 1997 — present

Global news source.

Covers newspapers, business magazines, and newswires from all regions of the world, including emerging markets. This resource may provide unique relevant information.

Dictionary.com

Lexico Publishing Group, LLC Coverage: — N/A, Full Text: — N/A

Multi-source dictionary search service.

Using a variety of dictionaries and encyclopedias can be useful in clarifying terminology.

Dissertation Abstracts Online

• Dialog Coverage: 1861 — present, Full Text: — N/A
• STN Coverage: 1861 — present, Full Text: — N/A

Subject, title, and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at an accredited institution.

Dissertations and Theses — Full Text

ProQuest Coverage: 1861 — present, Full Text: Dates — vary

Doctoral dissertations and Master's theses.

EBSCOhost Research Databases

EBSCO Coverage: Dates — vary, Full Text: Dates — vary

Multi-source database of business, technical, and trade periodicals.

European Newspapers

Dialog Coverage: Dates — vary, Full Text: Dates — vary

OneSearch category.

This resource contains abstracts and full text of major European newspapers, which can be useful for covering local contests and other international news stories.

Financial Times

Dialog Coverage: 1982 — present, Full Text: 1982 — present

Daily newspaper of global affairs.

Gale Group Computer DatabaseTM

Dialog Coverage: 1983 — present, Full Text: 1988 — present

Information about the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries.

Gale Group GlobalbaseTM

Dialog Coverage: 1986 — 2002, Full Text: — N/A

Worldwide coverage of companies, products, and industries with a primary focus on Europe.

Gale Group Marketing & Advertising Reference Service

Dialog Coverage: 1984 — present, Full Text: 1984 — present

Multi-industry advertising and marketing database with abstracts and full text records on a wide variety of consumer products and services.

Gale Group New Product Announcements/Plus (NPA/Plus)

Dialog Coverage: 1985 — present, Full Text: 1985 — present

Full text press releases from all industries covering announcements related to products, with a focus on new products and services.

Gale Group Newsletter DatabaseTM

Dialog Coverage: 1988 — present, Full Text: 1988 — present

Facts, figures, analysis, and current information affecting a broad range of industries and sectors.

Gale Group PROMT

• Dialog Coverage: 1990 — present, Full Text: 1990 — present
• STN Coverage: 1978 — present, Full Text: 1978 — present

International coverage of companies, products, markets, and applied technologies for all industries.

Gale Group Trade & Industry DatabaseTM

Dialog Coverage: 1976 — present, Full Text: 1976 — present

Coverage of international company, industry, product and market information.

Inside Conferences

Dialog Coverage: 1993 — present, Full Text: — N/A

Contains details of all papers given at every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting received at the British Library Document Supply Centre.

Inspec (The Database for Physics, Electronics and Computing)

• Dialog Coverage: 1898 — present, Full Text: — N/A
• Dialog DataStar Coverage: 1969 — present, Full Text: — N/A
• Questel Orbit Coverage: 1969 — present, Full Text: — N/A
• STN Coverage: 1969 — present, Full Text: — N/A

Inspec (The Database for Physics, Electronics and Computing) corresponds to the three Science Abstracts print publications: Physics Abstracts, Electrical and Electronics Abstracts, and Computer and Control Abstracts.

Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts

EBSCO Coverage: 1980's — present, Full Text: — N/A

Literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas.

Journal of Commerce

Dialog Coverage: 1987 — present, Full Text: 1987 — present

Provides the complete text of all news, columns, editorials, briefs, calendar listings, and selected tables that appear in the Five-Star edition of the business newspaper covering international trade and transportation issues.

JSTOR Journals

JSTOR Coverage: Dates — vary, Full Text: Dates — vary

Business collection brings together core titles in economics and finance, including many publications from the leading scholarly societies.

McGraw-Hill Companies Publications Online

Dialog Coverage: 1985 — present, Full Text: 1985 — present

Provides the complete text for many major McGraw-Hill publications.

The database covers specific industries such as aerospace, electronics, and construction.

New York Times

Dialog Coverage: 1980 — present, Full Text: 1980 — present

New York Times full text database.

NTIS: National Technical Information Service

• Dialog Coverage: 1964 — present, Full Text: — N/A
• STN Coverage: 1964 — present, Full Text: — N/A

U.S. government-sponsored research, development, and engineering reports.

OneLook® Dictionary Search

OneLook® Coverage: — N/A, Full Text: — N/A

Collection of web-based dictionaries that define or translate words and phrases.

Using a variety of dictionaries and encyclopedias can be useful in clarifying terminology.

PR Newswire

Dialog Coverage: 1999 — present, Full Text: 1999 — present

Complete text of news releases prepared by U.S. companies, public relations agencies, trade associations, city, state, federal and municipal government agencies, and other sources covering the entire spectrum of news.

ProQuest Direct

ProQuest Coverage: Dates — vary, Full Text: 1986 — present

Current periodicals and newspapers, as well as archives of major newspapers.

This resource is useful in preliminary searching of application.

Safari Online Books

ProQuest Coverage: — , Full Text: Dates — vary

Electronic reference library of technical books.

Books on software, the internet, business transactions etc. can provide useful information. Textbooks are also a good source of prior art and background information.

San Jose Mercury News

Dialog Coverage: 1985 — present, Full Text: 1985 — present

Full text file provides local, national, and international news coverage with particular emphasis on high technology and industry developments in Silicon Valley.

TecInfoSource (formerly SoftBase: Reviews, Companies, and Products)

Dialog Coverage: 1994 — present, Full Text: — N/A

Covers emerging technologies, established technology products and their track record in the marketplace across multiple industries.

Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS)

Dialog Coverage: 1968 — present, Full Text: — N/A

Provides international coverage of ongoing research projects, published journal articles, state and federal government reports, conference proceedings, research and technical papers, and monographs.

U.S. Major Newspapers

Dialog Coverage: Dates — vary, Full Text: Dates — vary

OneSearch category.

This resource contains abstracts and full text of major US newspapers.

Wall Street Journal Abstracts

Dialog Coverage: 1973 — present, Full Text: — N/A

Contains abstracts of all articles published in the Eastern 3-star Edition of The Wall Street Journal newspaper.

Wilson Applied Science & Technology Abstracts

Dialog Coverage: 1983 — present, Full Text: — N/A

Science and technology journal abstracts.

Non-Patent Literature

The following are free resources

• IPEstonia Toolbar Makes tailored search toolbars to assist in gathering information
• IBM Journal of Research and Development - registration required
• Tech Web Technology enyclopedia
• BioFind - account needed
• MatWeb Searchable material properties
• PubMed Biomedical articles from Medline and life science journals
• Medline National Library of Medicine
• Matrixware Science technology database - registration required
• ChemSpider Allows search for chemical images
• NIST Chem Web Book chemical structure and property database
• ZDNet Free technical white papers
• Google Scholar
• GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility

This following are resources available on a subscription basis:

• Delphion
• Get the Patent Comprehensive search of USPTO, EPO, WIPO
• STN International Global access to published research
• Software Patent Institute Prior art of software technology
• IP.com Prior Art database - free (limited)
• ACM Digital Library Journals and Magazines
• IEEE Xplore Digital Library
• Marpat Chemical abstracts
• SCOPUS Peer reviewed journals
• Engineering Village Engineering research tool

Libraries

The following resources are available online:

• United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) How to Conduct a Preliminary US Patent Search (presentation)
• Arizona State University Searching for Patents
• McKinney Engineering Library Patent Tutorials
• University of Illinois Step-by-step guide to prior art searching
• University of Maine - Fogler Library Guide to patent searching
• University of Washington Step-by-step guide on doing prior art searches
• Worchester Polytechnic Institute Patent resources, patent tutorials, and patent worksheet

The following resources are available on-site in the libraries:

• New York Public Library - Science, Industry, and Business Library (SIBL) Patent information and classes offered
• Hennepin County Library (Minnesota) Classes - Search using the keyword "patent."

Books

Information Sources in Patents by Stephen Adams

Describes patent sources available worldwide and researches international patent systems in industrialized nations.

Patent Searching: Tools and Techniques by David Hunt, Long Nguyen, Matthew Rodgers

Provides a guide to the art and science of this task, along with essential information on patent law, patent search theory, and practice. It outlines criteria on how to select the most appropriate search tools and even provides current information on the major databases available. And with an abundance of illustrative tables, charts, and figures, this book makes complex material easy to read and understand

Patent Searching Made Easy: How to do Patent Searching on the Internet & in the Library by David Hitchcock