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Patent Searching

We suggest you carry out your patent search with either esp@cenet at the European Patent Office or Depatis at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office. Both allow searches over US, World and other patents as well as European patents. You can then download your patent using our service.

Although PatentMatic will retrieve Japanese patents they are probably unintelligible (apart from the English abstract) to most Westerners. If you require a Japanese translation visit the PAJ search page from where 'machine' translations can be obtained.

Worldwide Patent Offices

The following are links to many patent offices worldwide. From the native language page there is often a link to an English version.

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If you know of any others please let us know at

The World Intellectual Property Organization (wo) in particular has a lot of background information about Patents and IP in general.

Other Links

We are compiling a list of links to other patent services, patent blogs, attorneys, translation and similar services. If you would like to be included or know of others please let us know.

For a light-hearted look at patents visit CrazyPatents.com, Curious Patents or patently silly.