Patents, Inventors & Entrepreneurship: Where to Search

European Patent Office

Patent search and online research community - developing tools to make searching world’s patent data easier and more convenient

Developed as a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab, Cisco, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), this open-access repository archives prior art in a variety of formats, including Word documents, web pages, Excel spreadsheets, images, and videos.

Search by research topic or chemical structure; can limit to patents and company name

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US Patents & Trademark Office