LibGuides: Electrical & Computer Engineering: Intellectual Property (Patents)

Intellectual property

Patents and Trademarks
A more in-depth guide to searching and using patents and trademarks.
Google Patents
Provides easy access to patents from multiple countries as well as a "prior art" search feature.

SCOPUS
Scopus indexes patents from the World Intellectual Property Office, European Patent Office, USPTO, Japanese Patent Office, and UK Intellectual Property Office. This database also contains articles and scholarship from scientific, technical, and medical fields.
Derwent Innovations Index
A Web of Science resource for patent literature from 40 patent issuing authorities. Uses the ISI search interface and links forward in time to citing patents and backwards in time to cited patents. Coverage from some source patents begins in 1963.