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 Search This link opens in a new windowCovers all US patents from 1790 onwards. Replaces legacy tools PubEAST, PubWEST, PatFT and AppFT.
USPTO Patent Tools and Links
- Patent Center 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 Check the Withdrawn Patent Numbers to see if your number was never used for an issued patent.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)
- Allows Cooperative Patent Classification and Chemical substructure search
International searching
- Derwent Innovations Index (1963+) This link opens in a new window
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On the main search screen, click the arrow next to Core Collection and choose the index you wish to search through.
"Derwent Innovations Index merges patent information from Derwent World Patents Index with the patent citation information from Derwent Patent Citation Index. Users can conduct patent and citation searches of inventions in chemical, electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering.Access restricted to subscribing institutions." - Espacenet (European Patent Office) This link opens in a new window"Espacenet offers free access to more than 90 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today."
- Lens This link opens in a new window
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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) This link opens in a new windowSee https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/help/data_coverage.jsf for searchable National Collections and their coverage
- PatentsView This link opens in a new windowprovides 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 link opens in a new window"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 This link opens in a new window"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.