Industrial Design: Patents

Allows searches for full-text of patents from around the world.

The Lens serves nearly all of the patent documents in the world as open, annotatable digital public goods that are integrated with scholarly and technical literature along with regulatory and business data.

Contains 400 classes of patents where you can determine the class of your idea by searching keywords. Determine what class/subclass entry is most appropriate to your item and retrieve all of the patent titles in that class/subclass.

Check patent rules, guidelines for submitting patents, and the U.S. Patent Bibliographic Database (a free searchable database of U.S. patents issued from 1/1/76 to the present; all U.S. patents issued from 1976 to the most recent are full text), and the AIDS Patent Database (a free database of the full text and images of AIDS-related patents issued by the U.S., Japanese and European patent offices).