AusPat Database of Australian Patents

AusPat is a database of Australian Patents run by IP Australia that allows you to access case files for patent applications dating back to 2006 and search the text of specifications back to 1904.

In AusPat according to its website you can:

• Access responses, reports, amendments and search reports via eDossier

• Use the full text searching capability to explore the contents of applications back to 1904

• Access additional opposition, ownership and publication data

• Use eJournal - search, browse and print information from AU patent journals

• Use eRegister - search, browse and print extracts from the Register of Patents

• Search for applications through the Quick, Structured and Advanced search interfaces

• Use any of the 28 search fields

• Use the Name Selector to find varients of Applicant and Inventor names

• View, sort, customise and print the results of your search in the “Search Results” page

Recently Shelston IP have posted a review of AusPat to Mondaq which has some valuable pointers on how to use the database and get the best results when researching Patents. The article gives the database the thumbs up saying:-

“AusPat has many good things going for it, and IP Australia has taken great steps to get it to this level of capability, and as such it should form part of every searcher's set of patent information tools.”

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