Patents and Research: Google Patens

Google Patents

Content:
Google Patents is a search tool that enables users to search and read the full text of patent grants and applications from around the world.
Providers of information: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, the Japan Patent Office, the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, and more

Search for patents:

• Very broad coverage. Explore live coverage information by contributing patent office
• Utilises Google's powerful, proprietary search
• Prior art search supported by other Google products - Google Scholar and Google Books
• Machine translation of non-English patent text into English (powered by Google Translate)
• Data on the top 1000 results in your search are presented visually, indicating:
  • Top results by filing date - indicating fluctuation in applications and granted patents over time
  • Top Assignees (Applicants), Inventors and Classifications (CPC) associated with these documents
• Results can be grouped by classification
• Results can be deduplicated by publication or patent family
• Filter results by:
  • patent status - application or granted documents
  • litigation - whether there is known related litigation or not