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Patent Law: Identifying Prior Art

updated Oct., 2020

Websites

European Patent Office Espacenet Patent Search. EPO.

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DEPATISnet. German Patent and Trade Mark Office.

The Lens Patent Search. LENS.ORG.

USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database. USPTO. 

 USPTO Prior Art Search. USPTO.

USPTO Patent Statistics. USPTO.

WIPO PATENTSCOPE. WIPO.

Databases

Derwent World Patents Index (Coverage: 1963 to present).  Westlaw.  Online CWRU Law Users Only.