Patent Lens
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Type of site
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Patent Search Service |
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| Available in | Multilingual |
| Owner | CAMBIA |
| Website | The Lens |
| Alexa rank |
 565,347 (April 2014[update]) |
| Commercial | Not for profit |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | 2000 |
| Current status | Active |
The Patent Lens was an online patent search facility and knowledge resource, provided by CAMBIA, an independent, international non-profit organization dedicated to democratizing innovation. Launched in 2000, the Patent Lens allowed free searching of over 10 million full-text patent documents, including United States patents and applications, Australian patents and applications, European patents and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications. The Patent Lens was distinguished as being the only not-for-profit facility of its kind, with international coverage and links to non-patent literature and tutorials.
In 2013 the Patent Lens was officially replaced with CAMBIA's new site The Lens. The Lens has made huge strides in the visual presentation of patent analysis and workspace management. It also features a biological facility with a number of advanced tools for searching and analysing sequences found in patents.
Searches of the Patent Lens can be undertaken using numerous variables, including full-text, title, abstract, inventor, applicant/assignee, publication number and filing number. A user is also able to search for lapsed, abandoned, or expired US patents via the INPADOC patent status and family information service. Patent families may be visualized using graphical trees as pdfs.
The Patent Lens currently links to regulatory data in the form of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Orange Book: Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations. Biological sequence data is integrated via links to National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) GenBank and the Patent Lens' own gene sequences. The Patent Lens Sequence Project, commenced in June 2006, provides the only public facility to enable users to explore over 80 million DNA and protein sequences disclosed in patents.
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