Reference corpus
Patents, read from the offices that grant them
Granted patents and published applications from more than a hundred patent offices — searchable by what an invention does, not just the words in its title.
What’s in it right now
Read directly from the patent offices' own published data, so a record says what the office says. English titles and abstracts, with the full specification available for the documents that publish one.
What you can do with it
Search by what it does
Describe the invention in your own words and find the filings that match, even when they use completely different terminology.
See the landscape
Who is filing, in which offices, and how a field has moved year on year.
Follow it into the record
Every result links back to the office's own publication, so a claim can be checked at source.
Read alongside the research
Patents sit next to the academic corpus, so an invention and the papers behind it turn up in the same search.
Where it’s used
Research
The research workspace reads patents alongside papers, standards and datasets, with citations that link back to the original filing.
Patents are one of several reference collections in the wider askFinz index — see the full how the index works for how a filing gets from the office's own publication into a search result.