Derwent Innovations Index on Web of Science

Identify Technological Advances and Forecast Technological Trends

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Derwent Innovations Index facilitates rapid, precise patent searching, letting you conduct patent and citation searches of inventions in chemical, electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering.

This resource merges the value-added patent information from Derwent World Patents Index with the patent citation information from Derwent Patent Citation Index. You can use additional descriptive information and coding to discover all relevant inventions and quickly grasp a patent’s significance and its relationship to other patents. Reduce duplication of R&D; track competitors’ activities; detect and avoid patent infringement; identify potential gaps in the marketplace and possible licensing opportunities.

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    Over 82.8M individual patent documents
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    59 patent issuing authorities covered
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    6M patents added in the last year
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    Coverage 1963 to present

Derwent Innovations Index offers

Comprehensive Coverage

Derwent Innovations Index covers over 14.3 million basic inventions from almost 60 worldwide patent-issuing authorities and creates a unique patent family for every invention to speed discovery All Derwent titles and abstracts are written in plain English, to aid searching across patents issued in other languages, and to make it easy to understand an inventions novelty and claims.

Integrated access to other Web of Science data and tools

Accessing Derwent Innovations Index on Web of Science means you can simultaneously search all other Web of Science resources your institution subscribes to and take advantage of their powerful tools such as cited reference searching.

Insightful Analysis Options

Find trends and patterns, gain insight into emerging fields of research, and identify leading researchers, institutions, and journals with the Analyze Tool.

Backfile Data to 1963

Track over 55 years of vital data to discover all relevant prior art. More backfiles give you the power to conduct deeper, more comprehensive searches and track trends through time.

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