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from

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that indexes

patent A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an sufficiency of disclosure, enabling discl ...

s and patent applications.

Google Patents indexes more than 87 million

s and patent applications with full text from 17

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United States Patent and Trademark Office The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an List of federal agencies in the United States, agency in the United States Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark ...

(USPTO), *

European Patent Office The European Patent Office (EPO) is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. The EPO acts as executive body for the organisation

(EPO), * China's National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), *

Japan Patent Office The is a Japanese governmental agency in charge of industrial property right affairs, under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The Japan Patent Office is located in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo and is one of the world's largest pa ...

(JPO), * Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), *

World Intellectual Property Organization The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO; (OMPI)) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN). Pursuant to the 1967 Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO was created to pr ...

(WIPO), *

Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt The German Patent and Trade Mark Office (; abbreviation: DPMA) is the German national patent office, with headquarters in Munich, and offices in Berlin and Jena. In 2006 it employed 2556 people, of which about 700 were patent examiners. Funct ...

(DPMA), * Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), * Rospatent, *

Intellectual Property Office (United Kingdom) The Intellectual Property Office of the United Kingdom (often referred to as the UK IPO) is, since 2 April 2007, the operating name of The Patent Office. It is the official government body responsible for intellectual property rights in the UK ...

, * National Institute of Industrial Property (France), * the Netherlands Patent Office, * offices of Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, and Luxembourg. These documents include the entire collection of granted patents and published patent applications from each database (which belong to the

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). US patent documents date back to 1790, EPO and WIPO to 1978.

Optical character recognition Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronics, electronic or machine, mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo ...

(OCR) has been performed on the older US patents to make them

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able, and

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has been used on all non-English patents to make the English translations searchable. Google Patents also indexes documents from

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and

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, and has machine-classified them with Cooperative Patent Classification codes for searching. Patent litigation information is also available in Google Patents through a partnership with Darts-ip, a global patent litigation database.

History and background

The service was launched on December 14, 2006. Google says it uses "the same technology as that underlying

", allowing scrolling through pages, and zooming in on areas. The images are saveable as PNG files. Google Patents was updated in 2012 with coverage of the

(EPO) and the Prior Art Finder tool. In 2013, it was expanded to cover

(WIPO), German Patent Office (, DPMA), Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), and China's National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA). All foreign patents were also translated to English and made searchable. In 2015, a new version was introduced at patents.google.com with a new UI, integration of

with machine-classified with Cooperative Patent Classifications (CPCs), and search result clustering into CPCs. In 2016, coverage of 11 additional patent offices was announced. Support for the USPTO and EPO Boolean search syntax (proximity, wildcards, title/abstract/claims fields) was introduced, as well as visual graphs of inventors, assignees and CPCs by date, a thumbnail grid view of search results and downloadable result sets as CSV.https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7049475?hl=en&ref_topic=6390989 About Google Patents - Searching In 2018, global litigation information has been added. Google Patents pages display if a patent (or any member of its family) has a litigation history anywhere in the world and provides a link to the Darts-ip patent cases database.

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Patents A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an sufficiency of disclosure, enabling discl ...

Patent search services Internet properties established in 2006

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