The Lens

Lens serves global patent and scholarly knowledge as a public good to inform science and technology enabled problem solving. It enables users to search, analyze and manage patent and scholarly data.

API and Data
Beyond basic patent and scholarly work search, The Lens' versioned APIs provide programmatic access to Lens scholarly works and patent records, while options for bulk data downloads provide access to the genetic sequences in patents, as well as the corpus of scholarly works and patents. The open data is aggregated from diverse primary sources, with persistent identifiers from the original data sources provided for transparency and easier interoperability for integration and combination with other data.

PatSeq and PatCite
The Lens’ open PatSeq facility allows users to search, analyse and share the biological sequences disclosed in patents. And PatCite offers dynamic and interrogable, these maps allow users to identify important linkages, build networks of collaborations. The granularity of this tool allows the user to gain real-time insights into how science and scholarship are shaping patent-based inventions and which research article, which scientists or researchers, and potentially, which institutions have influence over a subset of economic activity.

The Lens offers all registered users a Personal Account with a Professional Workspace, providing access to tools and features on the Lens.org platform, and built on open shareable metadata to support many use cases and use types across industry and the research and innovation sectors. Institutional Accounts are available as part of the Institutional Toolkit (ITK), providing access to institution-specific tools and features, as well as Professional Workspaces for all institutional users.