Patents: Search

European Patent Office search engine provides free access to over 120 million patent documents.

This search engine includes over 120 million patent publications from patent offices around the world.

PatFT (Granted Patents) and AppFT (Patent Applications)

This 7-minute video from the University of Central Florida demonstrates patent searching using Espacenet.

This 8-minute video from the University of Michigan demonstrates patent searching using Espacenet.

This tutorial from the University of Minnesota includes Google Patents, the United States Patent and Trademark Office databases, evaluating patents, search strategies, and more.

Created by Purdue Northwestern University. This 6 minute video covers the basics.

This tutorial from Penn State University includes both text and videos and primarily uses the USPTO Patent Full Text (PatFT) database to demonstrate searching.