Patent Resources - Patent Searching for Scientists - Research Guides at Tulane University

Patents & Trademarks

Searchable databases of some of the world's major patent and trademark offices. Tulane Libraries do not collect print copies of patents, but the full-text of many patents are freely available electronically.

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Overview & Background

Understanding Patents - General Information Concerning Patents
General Information Concerning Patents
What Are Patents, Trademarks, Service Marks, and Copyrights?
Patents (Overview)
West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Shirelle Phelps and Jeffrey Lehman. Vol. 7. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2005. p388-397.
Patent and Trademark Office
West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Shirelle Phelps and Jeffrey Lehman. Vol. 7. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2005.. p387-388

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Databases to consider for patent discovery

Engineering Village - EI Patents
EI Patents comprises millions of patents from the US Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Office. This database can be cross-searched with other databases on Engineering Village, retrieving results both from patents and scientific literature.
LexisNexis Academic
All U.S. patents full-text back to 1971 and other full-text patent databases and sources
SciFinder Scholar

Use the SciFinder Scholar search features, including the option to search by chemical structure or formula, to search for chemistry-related patents. Software provides links to full-text when available free. Web version requires registration with a tulane.edu email account.

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Finding Patents

Examiner Handbook to the U.S. Patent Classification System
Patent Searching: Tutorial and Guide to Online Resources and Information
Guide to Patent Searching - University of Texas. Patent Tutorials (Which one is right for you?)

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Searching for Patents in Engineering Village

EI Patents choose document type

Cross-search on Engineering Village, retrieving results both from patents and scientific literature. Refine your results by using Patent as a document type.