MeSH Heading	Patents
Tree Number	V02.675
Annotation	this heading is used as a Publication Type. Used by catalogers only; patents as a subject are indexed under the main heading PATENTS AS TOPIC
Scope Note	Works consisting of documents granted by a government giving exclusive rights to an inventor or assignee to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
History Note	2008(1999)
Date of Entry	19980603
Unique ID	D020490

Publication Formats [V02]
	Abbreviations [V02.025]
	Abstracts [V02.035]
	Academic Dissertations [V02.050]
	Account Books [V02.060]
	Addresses [V02.070]  +
	Advertisements [V02.100]
	Almanacs [V02.110]
	Anecdotes [V02.115]
	Animation [V02.120]
	Annual Reports [V02.130]
	Aphorisms and Proverbs [V02.135]
	Architectural Drawings [V02.140]
	Atlases [V02.150]
	Bibliography [V02.165]  +
	Biography [V02.170]  +
	Book Reviews [V02.180]
	Broadsides [V02.200]
	Caricatures [V02.225]
	Cartoons [V02.235]
	Catalogs [V02.240]  +
	Charts [V02.245]
	Chronology [V02.250]
	Classical Article [V02.255]
	Collected Works [V02.260]  +
	Collections [V02.265]
	Comment [V02.267]
	Congresses [V02.270]  +
	Corrected and Republished Article [V02.275]
	Database [V02.300]
	Diaries [V02.305]
	Dictionary [V02.310]  +
	Directory [V02.312]
	Documentaries and Factual Films [V02.315]
	Duplicate Publication [V02.320]
	Editorial [V02.335]
	Encyclopedias [V02.350]
	Ephemera [V02.355]  +
	Essays [V02.365]
	Eulogies [V02.375]  +
	Exhibitions [V02.415]
	Fictional Works [V02.450]
	Forms [V02.460]
	Government Publications [V02.500]
	Guidebooks [V02.510]
	Guideline [V02.515]  +
	Handbooks [V02.520]
	Historical Article [V02.530]  +
	Humor [V02.540]  +
	Indexes [V02.550]
	Instruction [V02.575]  +
	Journal Article [V02.600]  +
	Laboratory Manuals [V02.605]
	Legal Cases [V02.610]
	Legislation [V02.620]
	Letter [V02.625]
	Manuscripts [V02.630]
	Meeting Abstracts [V02.650]
	Monograph [V02.660]  +
	News [V02.665]
	Newspaper Article [V02.667]
	Outlines [V02.670]
	Overall [V02.672]  +
	Patents [V02.675]
	Periodical Index [V02.682]
	Periodicals [V02.690]
	Pharmacopoeias [V02.695]  +
	Pictorial Works [V02.700]  +
	Popular Works [V02.725]  +
	Published Erratum [V02.737]
	Resource Guides [V02.750]
	Retracted Publication [V02.800]
	Retraction of Publication [V02.825]
	Review [V02.912]  +
	Statistics [V02.956]
	Tables [V02.978]
	Technical Report [V02.989]
	Unedited Footage [V02.994]
	Union Lists [V02.997]
	Unpublished Works [V02.998]