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Database of Patents and Published Applications

http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html

Search here for issued patents ("full-text since 1976, full-page images since 1790") or for published applications (since March 15, 2001). From the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

esp@cenet

http://ep.espacenet.com/

Search for European patents using this search interface from the European Patent Office. Available in English, French, or German.

Canadian Patents Database

http://patents1.ic.gc.ca/intro-e.html

". access over 75 years of patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and study more than 1,500,000 patent documents."

Patent Web Resources

http://www.library.gatech.edu/search_locate/techres/patentsweb.htm

From Georgia Tech, this page has links to patent databases, guides on how to search them and useful information about the U.S. Patent Office.



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