Patent Databases – National/International

AusPat. Comprehensive search system for Australian patent data, providing a single point of enquiry for information on Australian patents in a free online patent search tool. There are 28 searchable fields; some have links to full AU-A/B/C full patent specifications in PDF. Pre-1975 Australian applications as far back as 1920 have some full-text data, all have minimum application number and IPC.

Language: English

Contains patent documents from 1920 to the present time. 

“The electronically available patent information consists of patentdocument images, bibliographic data and patent document text. Searches are performed against the bibliographic and text data fields only, and a “hit list” of matching patents is returned. Images are not searchable but can be viewed for any particular patent that has been returned in a hit list.

The text of the abstracts and claims is not available for patents that were granted prior to August 15, 1978. These patents can only be searched by their patent number, titles, owner or inventor names, or classification.”\

Language: English and/or French

Access to the bibliographic data of patents published by any member state of the European Patent Organisation, WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), and the European Patent Office.

The European Patent Office search option “allows you to search in the most recent 24 months of patent applications published by the European Patent Office. The full documents can be displayed in facsimile mode for any of the documents, which are retrieved by this search option.” 

The World Intellectual Property Org. (PCT) Search Option “allows you to search in the most recent 24 months of patent applications published by WIPO (WO publications). The full documents can be displayed in facsimile mode for any of the documents, which are retrieved by this search option.” 

ClassPat offers access to the European Classification scheme by either browsing of the classification schedules or searching by keyword.

The EPO’s PATSTAT database is relevant to patent intelligence and statistics. It helps you perform sophisticated statistical analyses of bibliographical and legal event patent data. PATSTAT contains bibliographical and legal event patent data from leading industrialized and developing countries. 

The official German patent office. DPMAregister provides the publications, on patents, trademarks, utility models and designs to well as register data. Includes search for legal/procedural status information as well as the corresponding publication data.

Language:English and German

The Hungarian Industrial Property Database (PIPACS), “enables searching the full collection of the Hungarian patents, utility models, trademarks and designs in a single user interface. 

The database contains information regarding patents, utility models, trademarks, designs protected in Hungary, applications pertaining to these protection forms, bibliographic data and drawings thereof.  Upon entering the website, two windows will open.” The window (called PIPACS) under the “Query” window gives coverage information as well as detailed help on using the database.

Language:  Hungarian, English

Patent Register: Search for published patents only by application number, patent number, or European application or patent number. Bibliographic information is displayed (no abstract), along with maintenance fee status.

Patent Database: Search for published patents only using a number of different bibliographic fields. In the result list, clicking on the patent number takes you to the Patent Register notice, clicking on the icon (not available for all patents) gives you bibliographic information including an abstract.

Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) Database: “A supplementary protection certificate (SPC) extends the duration of the exclusive patent right, solely in respect of the product covered by the authorisation to place the corresponding medicinal or plant protection product on the market, for up to a maximum of 5 years following the expiry of the term of the basic patent. This extension of protection is intended to make up for the time that has elapsed between the date of the patent application and the issuing of the authorisation to market the product.”

Language: English

Contains a variety of patent and utility model gazettes, retrievable by their number.

Language: Japanese, English

Covers Korea national application only. Search by a number of different bibliographic fields. Results include an abstract and also a drawing for some of the applications.

Coverage: Registered Applications, Jan. 1979-Dec. 2001; Unexamined Applications, Jan. 2000-Sept. 2002.

Language: Korean, English (The above hyperlink to English version)

Language: Spanish

Language: English  

Language: Romanian, English

Language: Spanish

The Patent and Design Journal (pdf files, archived to 1998) includes a listing of applications for patents, a subject, number, and name index of applications published, and a subject, number, and name index of patents granted. 

Language: English

The Patent Applications (AppFT) database includes all applications published since March 15, 2001. Images as well as full bibliographic data are available. 

Language: English

PatentsView

PatentsView is a patent data visualization and analysis platform intended to increase the value, utility, and transparency of US patent data. The initiative is supported by the Office of Chief Economist in the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). The platform uses data derived from USPTO bulk data files. These data are provided for research purposes and do not constitute the official USPTO record. The data visualization tool, query builder, bulk downloads, and flexible API enable a broad spectrum of users to examine the dynamics of inventor patenting activity over time and space. They also permit users to explore patent technologies, assignees, citation patterns and co-inventor networks.

Language: English