NOTE: Patent names aren't often the same as the name of the final product. Ex: Apple's patent for the iPhone is titled "electronic device."
Searching for US patents:
Bulk Data from the USPTOBreak down of public patent and trademark pre-packaged or user-customized bulk data products
DNA Patent DatabaseFree full-text DNA-based patents and applications issued by the USPTO
DOEpatentsDepartment of Energy Patents going back to the 1940s
Google PatentsDomestic and international patents, non-patent literature, and patent case law
HeinOnlineThis link opens in a new windowA vast collection of law journals, the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.
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USPTO Individual Patent SearchThe USPTO lays out information and steps for searching for individual patents and patents in general.
EspacenetAccess to over 120 million European patent documents
Global DossierSearch all related patents for a specific application
The LensThe Lens ingests, cleans, aggregates, normalizes and serves over 225+ million scholarly works, 127+ million global patent records, and more than 370+ million patent sequences, with rich metadata including the people and institutions that generate this knowledge and the linkages between them, drawn from diverse data sources.
Patentscope95 million patent documents including 4.0 million published international patent applications from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
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PDF Copies of Patents
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