| Comprehensive databases |
| SCOPUS SCOPUS provides a comprehensive search across patent organisations as well as subject topics across all publishers To search Scopus: conduct your search and click on the “Patent results link” above the search document results to focus on patents. |
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SciFinder Scholar |
| EMERALD Insight (including case studies) |
| Engineering Village (An interdisciplinary engineering and applied science database) |
| Market research reports databases |
| Marketline Advantage: accurate and up-to-date research reports on companies, industries and countries across the global market. |
| Fitch Solutions: provides indispensable insights, robust data, and powerful analytics to help clients navigate credit markets, credit risk, ESG, developed and emerging markets, across industries, sectors, entities and transactions. |
| EasyData: A comprehensive collection of South African macroeconomic, industry, trade and regional indicators. (Guide) |
| Gartner: access to Gartner products and services (Guide) |
| Patent Office search engines: |
| Search South African Patents |
| USPTO Full-Text Database The complete collection of patents filed and approved in the US since 1790. Full-text of the patent is available 1990-present, while historical patents are available as image files 7 Step Search Strategy - (USPTO - PTRC) This is a brief one-page guide to patentability searching on USPTO |
| Espacenet International Patent Search (European Patent Office) International patent information from 1836. Includes patents and patent applications, patent family information, and bibliographic records of historical patents. |
| Canadian Patent Database (CIPO) Canadian patents, 1869-present. Full-text available 1979-present; historical patents are presented as images. |
| PatentScope (WIPO) International patents and patent applications from the World Intellectual Property Organization, updated daily. Includes translation tools. |
| AusPat - the search system for Australian patents. |
| Patent search engines: |
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Octimine (limited free access) |
| Free Patents Online An independent and free search engine for patents from the US, WIPO, Japan, and Europe. Includes full-text and diagrams for patents and patent applications. |
| Google Patents Google's patent search, collecting patents and patent applications from the patent offices of the US, Europe, Canada, Germany, China, and WIPO |
| Patents.com US patent search and directory of patent lawyers. Searching is free, downloading requires registration. |
| The Lens
Searchable database with coverage of 90 patent jurisdiction
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| The DNA Patent Database searches areas such as genomics, genetics, biotechnology, and other fields. Covers patents from 1971 |
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