Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI)
Global patent data: curated, enhanced and simplified
Capturing the right insights from global patent publications is easier than ever
For over 60 years, Clarivate has combined the knowledge of subject matter experts with a big data approach to provide the premier source of global patent data, the Derwent World Patents Index. The DWPI team of 900+ editors analyzes, abstracts and indexes nearly 90,000 new patent publications every week.
R&D teams, IP professionals and over 40 national patent offices around the world rely on DWPI to help them find more relevant patents in less time.
Comprehensive data, better results
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Explore global patent coverage
Find the right patents and capture the right insights
Patent searching, simplified
Optimize your search with DWPI. Our abstracts use standardized terms — more likely to match your inputs. Editorially enhanced, descriptive DWPI titles help you quickly identify relevant results.
Comprehensive global coverage
Find relevant prior art from 62 global sources, including full text translated into English from over 30 original languages. Quickly understand a patent’s novelty, use, and advantage using clear and succinct abstracts.
Easily assess an invention’s global influence
Eliminate duplicate publications and quickly analyze inventions covering over 127m global patents sorted into 66m distinct invention families. Gain an extensive view of patent and literature citations, examiner and author, forward and backward, collated at the invention level with Derwent Patents Citation Index™ (DPCI).
