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Patent Searching

UNLV has two U.S. Patent and Trademark Resource Centers. The core mission and purpose of the Patent & Trademark Resource Centers is to support the establishment of intellectual property by inventors and to increase the understanding of patents and trademarks by UNLV students.

There are also many online 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
Good for: Conducting academic research on all subjects.
Contains: Articles, theses, books, abstracts, patents, and court opinions

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.

Google Patents
Simultaneously search Google Patents and Google Scholar to locate existing documentation of inventions. Searches within the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office (EPO), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), as well as the materials within Google Scholar.

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