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Free Patent Search Online The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office provides free patent searching of its public databases. Google Patents. A relatively easy database to search which PDF images available. Limited to U.S. patents and U.S. published applications.

Function & Data The amount of data will depend on the prior art in your field. The more prior art there is, the more data/disclosure you will need in order to prove that your invention has not been created before. If your invention is completely unprecedented, you might not need any data, but this case is very rare.

A poor man's patent is essentially writing out a description of your invention and then mailing that written description to yourself. This postmarked envelope supposedly acts to create the date of your invention as the date this written description was postmarked.

Go to the USPTO's online database. In the pull-down field menu, select "Assignee Name" if searching for company name or "Inventor Name" if searching for Inventor name. Type in the name of the inventor or company, keeping in mind that you might need to try several times.

The largest public patent database on the internet, Espacenet contains 100 million patent documents from more than 90+ countries including Canada and the U.S., plus 2 million records for non-patent literature cited in EPO search reports. Espacenet is produced by the European Patent Office (EPO).

Patentscope by WIPO Being established on 14 July 1967, WIPO holds a huge database. You can not only search patents but also trademarks and industrial designs. Patentscope by WIPO is immensely powerful as it provides free access to 83+ million patent documents from multiple participating patent offices.