Abstract
An article published in this issue (Rainey M) has introduced the value of using patents as a resource of scientific and technical and competitor information and the growth in free patent websites, highlighting Espacenet and PatentScope in particular. This article provides in-depth information on the most useful search techniques for these sources and includes a relatively new addition to the free patent database suite, that is, Google Patents.
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