This database is an online search tool for patents granted in Sweden between 1746 and 1945. Click on the image to explore the database.

Here you can search within the Swedish Patent Database, the Swedish Trademark Database, the Swedish Design Database and among Municipal arms.

NB! This version of the Swedish Patent Database is being decommissioned. The database is frozen regarding updates from 2026-01-26. During a transitional period, however, this version is to be used for material from up until the year 2000.

The database focuses on Swedish innovations and their historical development, compiling data on patents, technological advancements, and innovations from 1970 to 2021.

The database includes patents issued in France from 1791 to 1901 as well as trademarks and trade names registered in France from 1857 to 1920.

The database was developed by the European Patent Office and the member states of the European Patent Organisations. Click on the image to explore the database.

It includes over 120 million patent publications from 100+ patent offices around the world and technical documents and books indexed in Google Scholar and Books.

This website provides access to large databases, geo-positioning tools, search systems for legislation and historical BOPIs, as well as the Virtual Museum of Industrial Property and its Exhibition Hall.

This database contains 75,395 entries, representing nearly all patents filed between the enactment of the first Swiss law on November 15, 1888, and December 1913.

HistPat provides the geography of historical patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from 1790 to 1975. This historical dataset is constructed using digitalized records of original patent documents that are publicly available. 

The USPTO Historical Patent Data Files, four research datasets containing time series and micro-level data by NBER sub-category on applications, grants, and in-force patents spanning two centuries of innovation. 

patentCity is the data backbone of Bergeaud and Verluise (2021). It is a flexible framework to extract and structure vital information (for research) from historical patents as a way to unveil the unknown history of innovation. 

300 Years of British Patents is a large-scale dataset of the universe of historical patent specifications published by the British Patent Office between 1617-1899. The dataset contains the titles, full texts of specifications, lists of tokenized words, and extracted named entities for 322,874 specifications.

IPGOD—Intellectual Property Government Open Data—is a publicly available data set that provides access to over 100 years of information from IP Australia on IP rights applications. 

Multimodal LLMs for Historical Dataset Construction from
Archival Image Scans: German Patents (1877–1918)

The EPO's PATSTAT has become a point of reference in the field of patent intelligence and statistics. PATSTAT contains bibliographical and legal event patent data from leading industrialised and developing countries.

WIPO's IP Statistics Data Center is a free online service, which provides access to WIPO’s extensive statistical data on IP activity worldwide. You can search using a wide range of indicators, as well as view or download both the latest and historical data according to your needs.