Patent Searching
- Patent Public Search BasicUSPTO Basic Patent Searching
- Nexis UniNew version of Lexis Nexis Academic. Nexis Uni features news, business, and legal sources, radio and television transcripts, federal and state court cases, U.S. Supreme Court decisions back to 1790, and full-text law review articles. See the Newspapers Research Guide [ link https://researchguides.uic.edu/newspapers/top ] for library database coverage of the top 20 U.S. newspapers.
Other Free Patent Databases
- PatentscopeInternational patent searching; updates with new patents weekly
- European Patent Office SearchUpdates with new patents weekly; covers some U.S. patents
- Global Patent Search NetworkU.S. government international patent searching tool
- Intellectual Property IndiaAn India specific patent searching tool
- PatentLensSpecialized patent search for the life sciences
Patents Searching Help and Patent Overview
- USPTO 7 Step StrategySummary of the Multi-Step U.S. Patent Search Strategy
- USPTO Searching Reference GuidesUSPTO training guides
- Patents 101Patents 101 course from UIC accompanied by videos
- USPTO Search for PatentsReference guide on searching for patents in USPTO
Assistant Professor and Reference & Liaison Librarian (STEM)
Kristyn Caragher
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Contact:
Richard J. Daley Library
801 S. Morgan St
Chicago, IL 60607
801 S. Morgan St
Chicago, IL 60607
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