Patent applications
In addition to searching data related to issued patents, you can also search patent applications. The patent application database contains all of the documents or published applications currently pending issuance. While there is no guarantee that these applications will become issued patents, the benefit to searching applications is that they often contain the most up-to-date evidence of an organization's technological activity and interests.
The full text of the published applications include all bibliographic data, such as the inventor's name, the published application's title, and the assignee's name, as well as the abstract, the full description of the invention, and the claims. All of the words (text) in the publication are searchable. The search interface is identical to the one used for issued patents.
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