Medicine: Patents

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• Use free text searching or full-text searching (including restrictions, e.g. claims and/or abstract)
• Search for a patent number, e.g. US4148102, EP54596, WO9802986, JP6005310
• Search for patent assignees - the person(s) or corporate body to whom all or limited rights under a patent are legally transferred, such as Smith, John or NASA
• Search using the Lens structured search or Lens biological search
• Search with a patent classification:
  • IPC (International Patent Classifications) in almost all the patent databases
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