UCF Patents
Provided by Tech Transfer Central in conjunction with FreePatentsOnline, a list of all patents and patent applications from University of Central Florida
U.S. Patents
- Patent Public SearchCovers all US patents from 1790 onwards. Replaces legacy tools PubEAST, PubWEST, PatFT and AppFT.
USPTO Patent Tools and Links
- Public Pair and Global Dossier provide all application materials and correspondence between the patent applicant (or their legal counsel) and the examiner.
- Can't find a particular number? Check the Withdrawn Patent Numbers to see if your number was never used for an issued patent.
- An important source of historical and genealogical patent information
- Search U.S. patents full text from 1790
- Note: OCR text has significant errors and omissions, but does allow free search of much text back to 1836. UCF affiliates can use better OCR in LexisNexis Academic (Source Directory: Browse / Intellectual Property Records / Patent Filings / U.S. Patents, European Patents, Patent Abstracts of Japan, PCT Patents, and U.K. Patents)
- Classification search - uspclass: For the new Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) use Espacenet
International searching
- Espacenet (European Patent Office)"Espacenet offers free access to more than 90 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today."
- Lens
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"The Lens serves nearly all 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."
- Lens.org - Guide on the Side (Purdue University)"This guide-on-the-side tutorial walks you through a basic exploratory patent search."
- PATENTSCOPE (World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO)See https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/help/data_coverage.jsf for searchable National Collections and their coverage
- PatentsViewprovides a searchable database and visual displays of:
- relationships - patents, inventors & assignees for the most-cited patents
- locations - inventors & assignees by country, state, city
- comparisons - by location & technology fields
Patents by Country
- The British Library: PatentsA comprehensive source of patent and other intellectual property information
- Canadian Patents Database (Canadian Intellectual Property Office)"This database lets you access 146 years of patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and study more than 2,220,000 patent documents."
- Includes links to trademark databases and other Canadian company information - DEPATISnet"DEPATISnet is the database of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office for online searches on patent publications from around the world."
- Japan Platform for Patent InformationThe Japan Patent Office's Patent & Utility Model, Design, and Trademarks databases.