LibGuides: Civil Engineering: Patents & Standards

Reading Patents

The Claim Game: How to Read a Patent
Teska, K. (2007). CHAPTER 4: The Claim Game: How to Read a Patent. In , Patent Savvy for Managers (pp. 83-128). Nolo.

A chapter from a book explaining how to read a patent.

Compendex 1884-present This link opens in a new window
Search only Compendex, not EI backfile and limit the search to patents under document types. Searches patents before 1970.
Derwent Innovations Index This link opens in a new window
The Derwent Innovations Index provides access to more than 14,800,000 patents with links to cited and citing patents, cited articles, and full-text patent data sources.

Google Patent Search
Patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office
The USPTO site includes full text of all patents issued since 1790. All patents are searchable by patent number and classification number.
United States Patent and Trademarks Office Patent Search
Full text of United States patents from 1976 to present.