Patent Connector

Patent Connector, from Funktionslust GmbH, reaches into official intellectual property registers from a chat session. Patent coverage is deepest for the United States, Europe, and Germany, where full documents including claims, abstracts, and descriptions can be retrieved. Australian patents can be searched, while Japanese and Taiwanese records return bibliographic data and legal status. Further patent functions include families, prosecution history with USPTO office actions, ownership and assignment records, and side-by-side comparison.

Trademark search covers the EU and Australian registers, with status and document access for Japan, Taiwan, Australia, the EU, and the US. Design registrations can be searched for Japan, Australia, and the EU, with images returned alongside the records.

Use requires free API credentials obtained from each office to be queried.