Espace patent search

We Help Inventors Turn Ideas Into Success. Espacenet: free access to millions of patent documents. Find out if your invention is unique or if other inventors have filed patent applications that are considered to be prior art. Classification search is a powerful tool for you if you need to retrieve patent publications in a particular technical area.

If you visit a legacy espacenet server (any country except EP and FR with a URL containing search97) and tick the boxes to store patent documents into My patents list, you will not see the documents as legacy cannot read their format.

Are there free databases for patent search? How to check if a name is copyrighted? The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Public Search Facility located in Alexandria, VA provides the public access to patent and trademark information in a variety of formats including on-line, microfilm, and print. Patent search A service provided in co-operation with the EPO.

You can enter inventor or applicant names, numbers, dates, keywords and classes in any order without having to specify the search field for each search term. If you have found a number (for example in an article or magazine) but you do not know what it represents (application, publication, priority or NPL reference number, for example) or which country it comes from, you can use the Smart search option to find the relevant document. Click on Find patents to start your search with the selected symbols.

Click on Copy to search form to export the of a classification search to the Advanced search mask. Patents may be searched in the USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database (PatFT). We provide access to the largest single source of technical information in the world: our databases containing millions of patent documents. This allows you to see what already exists, find out about technical aspects of your competitors’ work or spot trends in technology. Discover the potential.

This patent search tool allows you not only to search the PCT database of about million International Applications but also the worldwide patent collections. Can I search for non- patent literature (XP) documents? It has a user-friendly interface available in almost all European languages. The system will find patent documents where the words mouse and trap are less than three words apart in the TXT identifier. Simply click your preferred language in the banner.

To find what you are looking for, you can search by keyword(s) in the field at the top of this page. Please choose your keywords carefully to avoid getting too many. Our Customer Care and Services will be glad to give advice at the DPMA locations in Munich, Jena and Berlin. You can also file a search request pursuant to Section of the Patent Act (Patentgesetz) in relation to your patent application. In the My patents list you can store up to 1documents.

The list expires after one year of non-use.

The EP database contains the entire collection of European patent applications published by the European Patent Office. You can search in the full text of all these applications. New EP applications are normally added to the database every Wednesday (after 1hrs).

They are available in the worldwide database shortly afterwards. The space for displaying names in the extended view format of the result list is limited. Note (2): A patent may have been sold to another company. In the database, it is the name of the applicant at. For more information have a look at the help file on Smart search - operators.

The Smart search mask lets you use proximity operators as well as comparison operators (e.g. any, within, all). The WIPO Centralized Access to Search and Examination (CASE) system enables patent offices to securely share search and examination documentation related to patent applications, facilitating a more effective and efficient international examination process.