Patent Lens is a worldwide, open-access, free full-text 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 9 million patent documents from US, Europe, Australia and WIPO, their status and counterparts up to 70 countries.

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The Patent Lens Sequence Project allows you to search over 80 million DNA and protein sequences disclosed in patents.

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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.

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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.
Patent Landscapes on Influenza Genes, Rice Genome and Adjuvants now online.
Protein & DNA Sequence searching of over 80 million sequences from worldwide patent collections.

Patent Lens in the News

Patent literature and Innovation in Africa

Intellectual Property Watch, Kenya
October 19, 2009

Collaboration key to biological energy production

CIO, Australia
October 6, 2009

A Singular Victory for Open Innovation

Business Standard, India
August 5, 2009
Navigation of this complex [patent] landscape is set to become much easier and more promising.

New initiatives to cure diseases of the poor world, The Economist

The Economist, US
July 16, 2009
Several new initiatives have been announced that will help cure the diseases of the poor world. Among them is the new Initiative for Open Innovation.

Nature Biotechnology editorial, May 2006 (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"

Red Herring Cover-story and editorial, April 17, 2006 (info)

Patent transparency is the lifeblood of the new open source" -Influential IT mag features CAMBIA's role in changing the face of life sciences innovation. (info)

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