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Coverage varies; World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)PATENTSCOPE® database is for searching international patent applications(WO)and national collections primarily for selected countries in Asia, South America, Africa, and the Middle East. Graphing tools, linguistic search, browsing capability, sequence tracking are among the value-added features. [This resource is publicly available.]

“Google Patents covers the entire collection of granted patents and published patent applications from the USPTO, EPO, and WIPO. US patent documents date back to 1790, EPO and WIPO to 1978.”

"Espacenet offers free access to more than 80 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today." It includes documents from the USPTO, the European Patent Office (EPO) and WIPO's PatentScope. NB: You can also search Espacenet in German and French.

Includes links to the Patent Full Text and Image Database (PatFT), the Application database (AppFT) and the useful Patent Classification Database.