Patent search tool covering United States, Europe, WIPO/PCT and China, with sophisticated patent management and analytics which can be visualized, customized, and exported in various ways. Use your MIT email to set up an account. Off campus users must access Patsnap via the VPN.

The Lens Institutional Toolkit provides access to nearly all of the patent documents in the world as open, annotatable digital public goods that are integrated with scholarly and technical literature along with regulatory and business data. APIs & bulk data downloading are now available in the Lens Institutional Toolkit.
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Search and read the full text of patents from around the world

European Patent Office patent search tool with access to information about inventions and technical developments from the 19th century to the present

Patent search and online research community - developing tools to make searching world’s patent data easier and more convenient

The MIT Technology Licensing Office provides this patent search tool.

Developed as a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab, Cisco, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), this open-access repository archives prior art in a variety of formats, including Word documents, web pages, Excel spreadsheets, images, and videos.

Search by research topic or chemical structure; can limit to patents and company name

Patent analytics

United States Patent and Trademark Office patent search