Patent documents are an important source of information for all researchers. They often give full details of methods and of preparation of compounds. Much of the scientific information in patents is never published elsewhere.
The Library does not hold copies of patents but many are freely available in full text from the patents sites listed on this page. Any which are not may be requested via the Inter-Library Loans Service.
Courtesy of James Molloy, Engineering Librarian, UCD.
This presentation explores
What is a patent
What is patentable
Why perform a patent search
Types of search
and gives a review of some patent databases.
