LibGuides: Chemistry: Patents

Chemistry Patents

CAPlus (via SciFinder): The world's most comprehensive database of chemical literature and patents. Patents are selected from over 35,000 International Patent Classification (IPC) codes and 99 U.S. National Patent Classification Codes. Scifinder Scholar - User Registration: Once you create a user name and password from on-campus, you should be able to access SciFinder on any internet-capable machine. You must complete this user registration before using the SciFinder Scholar database.

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Patent Fetcher retrieves patent page images from USPTO and combines them into a free PDF for you to download. EPO patents are available for a small fee.

Patent Full-Text and Image Database
Contains full text for patents issued from 1976 to the present. Patents issued from 1790 to the present are available as TIFF images and are searchable only by issue date, patent number, or current U.S. classification. (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)
Google Patents
Search the USPTO patent database using Google. Patents and trademarks are also available for free bulk downloading.
Canadian Patent Office
Search over 75 years of patent descriptions and images and more than 2 million patent documents. (Canadian Intellectual Property Office)
Espacenet
Free access to more than 70 million patent documents worldwide, with coverage from 1836 to the present. (European Patent Office)