Patent Lens is a worldwide, open-access, free patent informatics resource. It serves as the cyberinfrastructure platform for the Initiative for Open Innovation. Why are we doing this?

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Search and retrieve the full-text of more than 8.6 million patent documents from US, Europe, Australia and WIPO, their status and counterparts up to 70 countries, and over 50 million DNA and protein sequences disclosed in patents.

Understand Patents and their Uses

Understand your freedom to operate with respect to patent laws in different parts of the world, including patent tutorials and the implications of patent policies and practices on research, development, trade and society.

Explore Patent Landscapes

Landscapes are 'interpretation maps' that integrate volumes of specialized patent data around particular topics into a more navigable form.

^New Influenza gene patents and Rice Genome patent landscapes now online.

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Transparency of the worldwide patent system must be an international public good; This is your resource, and we need your help to keep it open and free.

Patent Lens New Features

Search technology now independent of language; Chinese (中文) PCTs now fully text-searchable.
Search for lapsed, abandoned or expired US Patents.
Visualize Patent Families with new graphical trees as PDFs.
New Landscapes analyzing gene patenting of the genomes of Influenza and Rice.
Protein & DNA Sequence searching of over 51 million sequences from worldwide patent collections.
Australian Patents are now searchable in full text. Press release (info):
Free PDF downloads now available for all US, Australian, PCT and European patent documents.
Zotero support added. Automatically add patent citations to Zotero reference manager (a FireFox plug-in).

Patent Lens in the Press

...efforts to make the claims of patents ... more transparent and navigable, such as the Patent Lens ...should be supported by all." -editorial in the May 2007 issue of The Plant Cell (info)

The ability to interpret and filter intellectual property (IP) has never been more important...CAMBIA's Patent Lens is a giant leap in the right direction" - editorial in the May 2006 issue of -Nature Biotechnology (info)

"Patent transparency is the lifeblood of the new open source" -Influential IT mag Red Herring (info) cover-story and editorial in the April 17, 2006 issue features CAMBIA's role in changing the face of life sciences innovation

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