Patent Databases

ChemVillage features Compendex Chemistry, an abstract database that indexes the top international chemistry and chemical engineering titles.  It also provides access to Chemical Business NewsBase & Beilstein Abstracts, CRC CHEMnetBASE, CRC ENVIROnetBASE, Patents worldwide via U.S. Patent & Trademark Office & Esp@cenet, and linkage to Electronic full-text articles.

IEEE Xplore provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 plus select content back to 1950, and all current IEEE Standards.

Lexis-Nexis provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) administers the patent and trademark laws as they relate to the granting of patents for utility inventions, designs and plants and the issuing of trademark registrations.