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Patents

Searching via Engineering Village 2

  • Go to Ei Patents
  • On the Engineering Village 2 search screen
    • By default you can search US Patents and EP Patents concurrently
  • Perform your search
  • On the search results page click on the Full-text icon to view the full-text online patent (if available)

Searching via SciFinderScholar

Monash students and staff can access SciFinder Scholar via workstations HAL-WEB-5176 or HAL-WEB-5177, Hargrave-Andrew Library, Clayton Campus, and at Pharmacy Library, Parkville.

  • Perform your search
  • From the search results page click on the Analyze / Refine button
    • select Refine
    • Document Type
    • Patent
    • click OK
      OR
    • select Analyze
    • select Document Type
    • select Analyze all documents
    • select either Sort results alphabetically or Sort results by frequency
    • click OK
    • select Patent
  • Viewing search results
    • Click on the microscope icon to view the full bibliographic record including the summary and indexing terms
    • Click on the manuscript icon to view the full text online patent (if available)
  • Country codes for patents in SciFinder Scholar

Viewing

Sometimes users need to install a Tiff image viewer to view the images of the online full text patents
  • Go to interneTIFF
  • Click FREE (left hand side)
  • select one of the versions offered (eg InterneTIFF - Internet Explorer Version)

Printing

Sometimes you may be able to print out the full original document
  • Click Save Full Document
  • You will be asked to Please enter the text that can be read in the image below:
  • After entering the text as given in the box provided, click Submit
  • You will then be asked Do you want to open or save this file?, select Open
  • Click Print

Searching via European Patent Office

European Patent Office is a free database which gives full-text of European, US, WIOP (World Intellectual Property Organization), and Japanese patents.

Searching

  • Go to European Patent Office
  • On the European patent Office homepage
    • You can search with Quick Search, Advanced Search, Number Search, or Classification Search
  • Perform your search
  • On the result list page you can view the document in the following format:
    • Bibliographic data, Description, Claims, Mosaics (a collection of thumbnails of the drawings), or Original document (in pdf format)

Printing the Original document

  • To print the complete document,
    • for document having less than 50 pages, click on Save Full Document in the horizontal toolbar and follow the instruction
    • for document having more than 50 pages, you can only print one page at a time

Searching Australian patents

IP Australia is the government agency responsible for granting rights in patents, trade marks and designs. The site offers both Quick and Advanced search options.
Read the AusPat - draft user guide (21 pages) before searching.

Obtaining Australian Patents:
IP (Intellectual Property) Australia's State Offices in Australia capital cities have full copies of patents in paper, microfiche or rollfilm format which can be viewed without charge. Copies can also be purchased by contacting IP Australia.

Useful websites

  • International Patent Classification (IPC) 'a hierarchical classification system used primarily to classify and search patent documents (patent applications, specifications of granted patents, utility models, etc.) according to the technical fields they pertain'.

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