As an Intellectual Property (IP) professional, you can find science and technology information critical to your business needs - whether you do the searching yourself or have the search carried out by us.

We offer patent and literature databases from all over the world for answering questions related to:

• Patentability
• Prior art
• Competitive intelligence
• Legal status
• Freedom-to-operate

To access the databases, you can use one or more of the following products:

STN - the online database service that connects you to patents, literature, substance information, and more
STN Express - comprehensive desktop access to the STN Databases 
STN on the Web^SM - comprehensive web access to STN
STN Easy - web access for the occasional or novice searcher

You can search patent data such as:

• Front page information, e.g., patent number, patent assignee, title
• Abstracts
• Full-text
• Legal status
• Patent family
• Database specific indexing, e.g., names and structures for specific or Markush structures, sequences, concepts

To analyze or visualize your data, take advantage of:

• STN Express tools to easily mine large data sets, look for trends, and create graphical depictions of data for use in reports and presentations
• STN AnaVist™ features and capabilities for efficiently analyzing and interpreting information retrieved from scientific and patent databases
• STN Viewer™ features for simple management and evaluation of full-text patent documents from STN Express answer sets