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Our Mission: To accelerate the translation of important ideas into meaningful products and services for North Carolina, the world, and the University.

Wondering if you’ve got the next great invention? Is it really novel? Who would buy it as a product or a service? What funding opportunities exist that may help get your invention from lab to market?
The Market Landscape Research Service, available to current UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, staff, and students at no cost, helps you assess your technology, the marketplace, as well as potential investment funding.
The service offers custom analytical reports that provide a strategic view of the competitive landscape, current and projected market conditions, as well as opportunities for grants and funding to complete research and launch new products, services, and businesses.

Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America - Profiles and Reports

Search the full text of patents 1976 - present; patents issued 1790 - 1975 are searchable by patent number or issue date. The Patent Application Database contains all patent applications published since 2001.

A free patent search tool, including 80 million patent documents from the European Patent Office, the USPTO, and other countries worldwide, searchable by full text.

World Intellectual Property Organization: PatentScope for Searching International and National Patent Collections

From the 1940's to today... A central collection of US Department of Energy patent information

World Intellectual Property Organization: Protecting your Inventions Abroad: Frequently Asked Questions About the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)

36 minutes