Engineering, General Subject Guide
Patents
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Patents provide protection for inventors, enabling them to manufacture
and profit from their inventions without fear of competition. Patents
are usually granted for a limited time.
Click on the following link to browse the alphabetical subject index to the U.S. Patent Classification System.
Full text for all classes of patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Includes graphics and indexing of all US patents from 1976-date.
Debuting in December 2006, Google's new patent search engine is a painless way to search and view patents issued in the U.S. from 1790 to the present (excluding recent applications). You can search for patents by keyword, patent number, title, inventor, assignee, classification (both U.S. and international), issue date, and filing date. Unlike the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's database, you can easily view the patents in Google's engine without having to download a special viewer. In addition, click the "Download PDF" button on the Google page to download the patent in PDF format to your computer.
Engineering Village features access to the Compendex and PaperChem databases.
Patent information service from the European Patent Office. Provides searching of worldwide patents.
Librarian's Comment: Select the USPTO option on initial search screen(at bottom left).