Patent and Technology Links

Aurigin http://www.aurigin.com Acquired by MicroPatent in May 2002. MicroPatent claims to provide the world's most complete collection of electronic patent data for full text and/or front page searching and downloading, in addition to customized software-driven workplace solutions. Targeted alerts, reports, filters, graphing tools, and access to file histories supplement these services. In addition, MicroPatent's divisions offer trademark data (Trademark.com), professional research assistance (Woolcott), and online licensing (The World Patent & Trademark Exchange: WPTX).

Aurigin's Aureka is a comprehensive service that provides decisive insight into a company's patent portfolio, as well as the patent landscape of a market area, enabling the collection, organization, collaboration, and analysis of this information in sophisticated, visually-precise formats. It consists of a suite of dynamic analytic tools that can be applied repeatedly to a data set derived from a custom database of worldwide patents and proprietary content.

CHI Research http://www.chiresearch.com/
Strong on patent citation analysis and broad technology studies.

CIPO - Canadian Patent Database http://Patents1.ic.gc.ca/intro-e.html
Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Citation Bridge http://www.patentcitations.com/
Free service allowing you to follow citations forward and backward.

Delphion http://www.delphion.com/ (was IBM: www.patents.ibm.com)
The Intellectual Property Network (IPN) began as an initiative within IBM. The IPN and other technologies were spun out of IBM in 2000. With these assets and $35 million in funding by Internet Capital Group (ICG), Delphion was created as a wholly independent, standalone entity.

Derwent http://www.derwent.com/
Derwent Information claims to be the world’s leading patent and scientific information provider. Over 200,000 patents are filed each year in the US alone while the European Patent office files around 80,000 patents a year. Derwent makes this information easily accessible by combining the world's patents on one searchable database.

Engineering Library Resources for Patents http://www.engrlib.uc.edu/guide/patent.html

Gartner http://www4.gartner.com/
Gartner specialise in identifying and analyzing the trends and technologies that have shaped the course of business.

Intellectual Property Digital Library http://ipdl.wipo.int/
The Intellectual Property Digital Library Web site provides access to various intellectual property data collections currently hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization.

IP.com http://www.ip.com/
Provides inventors a fast, easy, and inexpensive mechanism for releasing their innovation into the public domain. Provides a search mechanism for prior art.

ISI eSource http://isiesource.com/
The ISI eSource databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. Using this Web site, you can search for a topic within the ISI eSource database. Once you find an article of interest, you have the ability to link directly to other articles on the same topic. You can even access articles that have been published after the article you are viewing; this is the most powerful feature of the ISI eSource database. This is a useful way to find prior art.

Journal of Patent Associated Literature (JOPAL) http://www.wipo.int/scit/en/jopal/jopal.htm
The electronic form of the Journal of Patent Associated Literature is a database containing bibliographic details of articles published in leading scientific and technical periodicals.

Micropatent
MicroPatent is a subsidiary of Information Holdings, Inc., (IHI-NYSE) who provides essential information to professional and academic end-users, primarily in scientific, technical, medical and intellectual property markets.

Mogee Research and Analysis Associates http://www.mogee.com
Information services firm specialising in patent analysis for competitive intelligence and technology assessment.

Patent searching - a guide to online resources and information http://www.lib.utexas.edu/engin/patent-tutorial/index.htm

Research Disclosure http://www.researchdisclosure.com/
Research Disclosure is a defensive-type publication serving the scientific and patent communities worldwide. The journal is published every month and contains abstracts describing new discoveries or inventions. The pages of the journal are available to companies who, due to the special nature of an invention, seek a low cost alternative, or supplement, to obtaining patents and require prompt publication whilst maintaining freedom for their own use of that invention. In effect the act of publication bars others from obtaining patent rights on the invention described because the effective date of publication (which is the 10th of each month) establishes prior art. Disclosures in the journal may be accredited or published anonymously in order to protect company confidentiality.

Science Citation Index http://www.isinet.com/isi/products/citation/sci/
Allows researchers to conduct broad-based, comprehensive searches that uncover all the relevant information they need. Provides cited reference searching, lets users track the literature forward, backward, and through the database, breaking through disciplinary and geographic boundaries. Enables users to conduct multidisciplinary searches to discover hidden subject relationships.

United Kingdom Patent Office http://www.patent.gov.uk/patent/index.htm

United States Patent and Trademark Office http://www.uspto.gov/main/patents.htm

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) http://www.wipo.int/index.html.en
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the use and protection of works of the human spirit.