Solutions for IP Professionals
As an Intellectual Property (IP) professional, you can find science and technology information critical to your business needs - whether you do the searching yourself or have the search carried out by us.
We offer patent and literature databases from all over the world for answering questions related to:
- Patentability
- Prior art
- Competitive intelligence
- Legal status
- Freedom-to-operate
To access the databases, you can use one or more of the following products:
STN - the online database service that connects you to patents, literature, substance information, and more
STN Express - comprehensive desktop access to the STN Databases
STN on the WebSM - comprehensive web access to STN
STN Easy - web access for the occasional or novice searcher
You can search patent data such as:
- Front page information, e.g., patent number, patent assignee, title
- Abstracts
- Full-text
- Legal status
- Patent family
- Database specific indexing, e.g., names and structures for specific or Markush structures, sequences, concepts
To analyze or visualize your data, take advantage of:
- STN Express tools to easily mine large data sets, look for trends, and create graphical depictions of data for use in reports and presentations
- STN AnaVist™ features and capabilities for efficiently analyzing and interpreting information retrieved from scientific and patent databases
- STN Viewer™ features for simple management and evaluation of full-text patent documents from STN Express answer sets