PatBase

PatBase is the leading global patent search platform and is the only commercial patent database designed by professional searchers, for professional searchers.

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The number one international patent search resource

With a click of a button, PatBase gives you access to millions of patents, litigation results, legal status information, documentation and more. Developed by RWS in partnership with Minesoft, PatBase is the market-leading international patent search database. Covering over 100 million patents and related documents from over 100 countries, it boasts the most extensive patent and IP data coverage in the world.

RWS originally designed an internal database to provide our searchers with a superior professional search tool. We then joined forces with Minesoft Ltd and, in 2003, launched PatBase as a powerful international patent database. Today, over 50,000 users worldwide have access to +109 million patent and related documents on a user-friendly interface available in English, Japanese and Chinese.

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Flexibility: choice of command line or search forms to create queries.
Coverage: over 66 million full text documents from over 105 authorities worldwide, grouped in families for efficient searching.
Machine translations: important data is accessible in most languages.
Integrated links: click-through services to extend and verify your search beyond the front page.

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PatBase by the numbers
Search with speed and ease

50,000 subscribers	78 million+ Latin and non-Latin full texts
60 million+ patent families	86 million+ representative images
133 million+ publications	77 million+ complete sets of drawings
105 publishing bodies	Historical data dating back to the early 1900s
67+ full-text collections

PatBase, a truly global platform, is the only commercial database designed by professional searchers for professional searchers. Its key features and benefits include:

Extensive legal history data updated weekly	Ability to browse full-text search results and view the research results map to see where in the full text the hits occur
Intuitive, user-friendly interface in English, Japanese and Chinese	Storage of backward and forward citations with a rich citations viewer to analyse the data
Supports Evidence of Use, Freedom to Operate, Novelty, Patent Watch and more	Weekly or monthly notifications about new publications that match predefined search criteria
Searchable, on-demand, high-quality machine translation in 27 language pairs
Organized into over 60 million patent families, saving time and reducing duplication

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We are RWS

We are the world leader in intellectual property (IP) services.

With rigorous search protocols certified to ISO 9001 and industry-leading, innovative technology, we are the preferred IP services partner for companies, law firms, licensing organizations and tech transfer offices worldwide. We also offer high-quality legal translation, foreign patent filing, research and database services.

We have helped more than 10,000 clients protect and enforce their IP rights around the world and can do the same for you. Contact us for customized search proposals and details of other RWS search and information services.

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