Patents Now in Scite

Your research platform just expanded. Scite now brings more than 90 million patent families and over 200 million patent applications into the same workspace as your academic literature.

Work with patent data exactly where you already search, read, and analyze. No separate logins, no switching between tools, no manual data exports. Patent intelligence is now built into the heart of your workflow.

What Scite Patent Search Is

Patent Search is a comprehensive patent discovery and analysis tool built directly into Scite's research platform. It provides access to millions of patent documents from major patent offices worldwide, including the USPTO, EPO, and WIPO, integrated seamlessly with Scite's existing publication database.

Unlike standalone patent databases that require separate subscriptions and specialized search expertise, Patent Search works within your existing Scite platform. While patent search operates independently from publication search, you can access both capabilities from a single account, giving you a complete view of both published research and intellectual property landscapes without juggling multiple tools or logins.

What Patent Search Does

Patent Search lets you discover and explore patent documents using search functionality that helps surface relevant patents even when they use varied terminology, so you can find connections across different ways of describing similar technologies.

When you search for patents related to "CRISPR gene editing," you'll find relevant patents that might describe the technology as "clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats" or "genome modification systems" without requiring you to anticipate every possible phrasing. The system understands semantic relationships between concepts.

Each search returns comprehensive patent information including titles, abstracts, full descriptions, filing dates, publication dates, inventors, assignees, patent offices, and classification codes. You can access complete patent documents directly from search results, eliminating the need to track down PDFs across multiple patent office websites.

Advanced filtering options let you refine searches by date ranges, specific patent offices, technology classifications (IPC and CPC codes), assignee organizations, and inventor names. This precision matters when you're conducting freedom-to-operate analysis, tracking competitor filing patterns, or identifying white space in crowded technology domains.

This foundation enables us to bring Scite's citation intelligence capabilities to patent data in the future, including Smart Citations analysis and deeper relationship mapping between patents and academic literature.

How To Use Patent Search

Access Patent Search through the Patents navigation option in Scite. The interface mirrors the publication search experience you already know, making adoption straightforward for existing users.

Running A Search

Enter your search query in the main search bar; this can be a technology term, research concept, company name, or inventor. Patent Search helps surface relevant results even when patents use different terminology than your query. Results appear with patent titles, abstracts, filing information, and assignee details.

Filtering & Refining Results

Use the filter panel to narrow results by date ranges, specific patent offices, assignee organizations, or patent classification codes, letting you focus on the most relevant subset of patents for your research needs.

Exploring Patent Details

Click any result to access the full patent page. Here you'll find comprehensive patent information including claims, detailed descriptions, inventor information, filing history, and other key metadata. Patent Search draws from an extensive patent data set, and we're continually expanding the information displayed based on customer feedback and research needs.

Understanding Patent Relationships

Having patents and publications in the same platform makes it easier to cross-reference commercial IP with academic research. Move between patent search and publication search within a single session to compare research trends with patenting activity or identify gaps between what's published and what's protected.

Organizing Your Research

Download patent PDFs directly from patent pages for offline reference or external analysis. We're building additional organizational features like saving to your Scite library, creating collections, and sharing with collaborators: capabilities that will make patent research as integrated into your workflow as publication research.

Patents In Scite Assistant

Patents in Scite Assistant adds patent data directly to Scite's AI-powered research environment. You can search both patents and academic literature together with a single prompt.

Inside any Assistant session, open the settings panel and navigate to Specify Evidence Source. You'll find three options: academic literature (the default, built on Scite's publisher agreements), patents only, or both combined in a single view. If you select both, your questions will draw from academic publications and the full patent dataset simultaneously.

This integration is especially useful because research and patents often reference each other. By asking one question across both sources, you can find connections without doing separate searches or manual cross-referencing. For example, if you ask about companies filing patents in a certain technology area, the answer will include inline citation context for both academic papers and individual patent documents (with a combined references panel that distinguishes between the two source types).

The Bigger Picture: Unifying Research Data

We're broadening Scite's data coverage by introducing patents, a key milestone in unifying scientific, technical, and regulatory research data under one platform.

Time matters in research. Every day spent navigating separate systems is a day your competitors might be moving faster. Every innovation opportunity you miss because patent intelligence lived elsewhere is potential revenue left on the table.

You now have comprehensive patent data integrated into your research workflow, ready to inform decisions from day one of a project rather than arriving as a late-stage checkpoint.

Log into Scite, navigate to Patents, and run your first search. See what's been patented in your research domain. Track who's filing patents around your innovation targets. Identify where academic research hasn't yet translated into commercial protection.

The insights you need are already in your research platform. Start using them.