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Understand any patent within seconds
Look up a patent or publication by its number and read it in one place. Free, and it doesn’t track what you search.
Why we built it
What you search for can reveal your strategy
What you look up says what you’re building, who you’re worried about and what you might buy. Most patent search tools quietly collect that. We wanted a fast way to look up a patent without anyone watching, for our own work first.
- 1Built our own lookup, designed for speed above everything
- 2Left out tracking and any mining of what people search, by design
- 3Made it free for anyone to use
What it reads
Patents from 80+ offices worldwide
- USUnited States
- EPEuropean Patent Office
- WOWIPO, under the PCT
- CNChina
- JPJapan
- KRSouth Korea
- DEGermany
- +77more offices
What a record shows
The whole record, what you check first on top
Every record opens on the facts most questions turn on, with the full record in tabs below them.
At a glance
- Summary
- What the patent covers, in a few plain sentences, so you know whether it matters before you read the abstract
- ClaimScore
- How broad its claims are, beside a scale from narrow to very broad, with a link to the broadest claim
- About ClaimScore
- Abstract
- The abstract in full, beside the first drawing sheet
- Term
- How many years are left and when it expires, counting any term adjustment, on a timeline from priority to expiry
- Parties
- Who it was assigned to at grant and who holds it now, with the inventors and applicants and where they’re based
- Examination
- The examiner and art unit, the agents, how long it took from filing to grant, and the office actions before allowance
- Reach
- How many earlier patents it cites, and how many family members it has across how many offices
- Classification
- Its CPC and IPC codes
In full
- Claims
- Set out element by element, the broadest marked and the dependents folded under their independent claim
- Description
- The full written description
- Drawings
- Every drawing sheet
- Citations
- The earlier patents it cites
- Family
- The other members of its family, and the offices they were filed in
- Prosecution
- Its prosecution history, entry by entry
- Legal events
- The legal events recorded against it
- Identifiers
- The other numbers it goes by, such as its application number
And much more in every record
Look up a patentExaminer statisticsComing soon
Know your examiner before the next action
For the examiner on any US application, see how often they allow, how much claim breadth they take on the way and how long they take to act, each beside their art unit’s average.
From finding a patent to asking about it
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Find the patent you’re looking for
A number gets you to a patent you already know. Search is for the ones you don’t, and every result opens as a full record.
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Ask about the patent in front of you
Open Nova Analyzer from the side of any record and ask about it in plain language, with the record already in hand. It may come to search as well.
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