LibGuides: Finding Patents: Foreign Patent Sites

Foreign Patent Sites

For almost all foreign patent searches Espacenet opens new window will work better than country specific patent sites.

Japan's Industrial Property Digital Library
A tricky search interface, but sometimes the only way to get Japanese patents. This is a direct link to the Patent & Utility Model Gazette Database.
Japanese Patent FAQs
How to get Japanese full-text or English machine translations. Very helpful guide to Japanese patents from Espacenet.

Google Patent Search

Searches the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office; however, it does not necessarily find all the patents in the these databases.