LibGuides: Entertainment Engineering and Design: Patents & Inventions

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There are many tools available to help you search for publicly available patent applications or granted patent documents.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Full text content of U.S. patents issued from January 1, 1976, to the most recent weekly issue date.
Euopean Union Patent Office - Espacenet
The European Union's free patent search tool, Espacenet, offers free access to more than 80 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today.
World Intellectual Property Organization - PATENTSCOPE
WIPO provides a search tool, PATENTSCOPE, that can assist in searching the patent documents of many different countries.

Google Scholar
Searches scholarly journal articles. Set preferences to UNLV for full text access!

Google Scholar searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and reports from many academic and technical fields. It is freely available to anyone searching the Internet; however, many of the links that lead to full text resources are not. On your first visit, go to Google Scholar Preferences and use the Library Links box to set UNLV as your source for no-fee access to many full text articles. For answers to questions about Google Scholar, check out the FAQ.