Patents at Lens- new site for patent research

From the ALA/ACRL/STS Blog, Inside Science Resources comes a review of the new patent research site out of Australia called Lens. Their creative tagline is "Open public resource for innovation cartography".

Their dataset includes:

• The European Patent Office’s DocDB bibliographic data from 1907 – present: 81+ Million documents from nearly 100 jurisdictions.
• USPTO Applications from 2001 – present with full text and images.
• USPTO Grants from 1976 – present with full text and images.
• USPTO Assignments (14+ Million).
• European Patent Office (EP) Grants from 1980 – present with full text and images.
• WIPO PCT Applications from 1978 – present with full text and images.
• Australian Patent Full Text from IP Australia

The site also has a Patent Sequence Database, called PatSeq, that can search DNA or protein sequences that have been used in patents or patent applications.

Check it out! Read the complete post.