Chemical Engineering
Patent and Trademark Resource Center
More information on searching for patents can be found in the Patent and Trademark Resource Center guide or by reaching out to the PTRC Librarian.
Librarian
Anne Graham
she/her
Contact:
Room A273 Lederle Graduate Research Center Lowrise
740 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003-93006
740 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003-93006
413-545-1743
Licensed Patent Databases
- CAS SciFinderⁿ This link opens in a new window
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Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases of chemistry and related scientific fields. Mid 1800's - present. Includes step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and more. - Derwent Innovations Index This link opens in a new window
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Patents in chemical, electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering -1963 to present. Coverage of 14 million basic inventions from 40 worldwide patent-issuing authorities. - InnovationQ This link opens in a new window
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On-campus resource only; limited to one user
InnovationQ is a tool to find patents, explore the patent landscape, and provide options for visual representation of patent data.
Open Patent Databases
- USPTO Patent Public SearchPatent Public Search is the online search interface for the US Patent and Trademark Office's three databases:
- US-PGPUB (pre-grant US patent applications from March 2001 to present)
- USPAT (US patents, searchable in full-text from 1970 to present, by classification and patent number to 1790)
- USOCR (OCR-scanned pre-1970 US patents) - EspacenetThe European Patent Office's free search tool provides access to over 140 million patent documents from around the world.
- Google PatentsGoogle Patents indexes patents and patent applications from 100+ patent offices, including full-text documents from the US, Canada, Europe, China, Japan, South Korea, WIPO, and more.
- PATENTSCOPEThe World Intellectual Property Organization's patent database includes published full-text International Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications, patent documents from many national and regional patent offices, and non-patent literature.
