Patent Information

Welcome to the Patent Information Library Guide!

This guide provides basic information about and search techniques for learning about patents. If you have more in-depth questions or are having problems finding materials, feel free to use the Chat with a Librarian box to the left to receive help from a real librarian. You can also request a consultation appointment with or email your question to your Applied Sciences Librarian (Sophia Mosbe) or Life Sciences Librarian (Anna Yang).

This guide is designed to share information on patent protections, searching and related topics. This guide does not supply legal advice nor is it intended to replace the advice of legal counsel.

Perform activities from searching, submissions, post grant request and admin tasks such as managing customer numbers & practitioner associations with customer number

Search and read the full text of patents from around the world and find prior art in our index of non-patent literature.

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Offers free access to more than 150 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1782 to today.

This is a free browser extension that facilitates access to the SCU library's full text resources as you find research on the web. LibKey Nomad provides one-click access to full text from websites, databases, publisher pages, and even Wikipedia.

Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a free, unique, persistent identifier (PID) for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities.

Use the above link to access the SCU instance of Google Scholar which will allow you to escape paywalls and find scholarly literature and other materials to support your research.

Over 600 reference books, including encyclopedias, dictionaries (English and foreign language), thesauri, books of quotations, as well as a range of subject-specific reference books.