USPTO launches searchable COVID-19 IP Marketplace Platform

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has launched an Intellectual Property (IP) Marketplace Platform called “Patents 4 Partnerships.”

Patents 4 Partnerships is a centralized, searchable database of patent and published patent applications from federal agencies, universities and private industry, which have been voluntarily indicated as “available for licensing” by the patent owners. Initially, the platform will focus on technologies with COVID-19 applications.

For those with inventions available for licensing, the IP Marketplace Platform provides a centralized and easily accessible place to list U.S. patents and patent application publications. It offers to potential licensees a database of available technologies that permits searches using a variety of parameters.

The IP Marketplace Platform provides a voluntary listing of patents and patent application publications indicated as “available for licensing” on external public websites or in the USPTO Official Gazette Notices. It also offers a link to sources that include the licensing information. If a technology’s availability is listed as “unknown,” that means we currently do not know its licensing status.

In view of the current public health situation, the initial release of the IP Marketplace Platform focuses on listing technologies related to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of COVID-19. These could include personal protective equipment, disinfectants, ventilators, testing equipment and components thereof. With this new search tool, the USPTO seeks to facilitate the arrival of critical inventions to the market to meet the challenges of this crisis.

The information on the platform is not a complete listing of all technologies available for addressing this problem and is intended for general information purposes only. It does not reflect a position of the U.S. government with respect to the importance of these technologies or an endorsement of their usefulness in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

We invite you to submit additional technologies that you believe are related to the COVID-19 crisis and to send comments/correction through the respective links provided on the main page of the platform. The database will be updated on a regular basis and we will continue improving the search engine and user interface.

Read more: https://developer.uspto.gov/ipmarketplace/search/platform

Search for inventions: https://developer.uspto.gov/ipmarketplace/search/patents