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Patents
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- Coverage: Patent information
is available from three major databases:
- US Patent Full Text Database
(contains full-text content of US patents) issued
from January 1, 1976 to the most recent weekly issue date.
- US Patent Bibliographic
Database (contains front page information from US patents)
issued from January 1, 1976 to present.
- AIDS Patent Database,
which includes the full text and images of AIDS related
patents issued by the U.S., European and Japanese Patent
offices.
- Free Services: This site
is completely free.
- Features: Users may conduct
fielded and boolean searches or search by patent number. The
full-text returns include the Summary, Claims, Description,
and References. Drawings and images are not available online.
Search tips and help are provided at the site. This site also
includes a lot of information about patenting. Patent application
forms can be obtained from this site (requires
Adobe Acrobat).
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- Coverage: Free searching
of a wide variety of data collections and patent information
including...
- United States patents (1971
- present)
- European patents and patent
applications (1979- present)
- PCT application data from
the World Intellectual Property Office (1990 - present)
- Patent Abstracts of Japan
(Oct 1976 - May 1999)
- IBM Technical Disclosure
Bulletins (1958 - Jan 1998)
- Free Services: Searching
and viewing of scanned images allowed (front page only).
- Commercial Services: Complete
pricing
and ordering is available. Subscription
needed to print images.
- Features: Bi-directional
hyperlinking of patent references allows users to locate and
view prior art by navigating through all cited patents and access
later patents that reference the existing document.
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- Subscription
Required.
- Coverage: Patent information
is accessible from the three major patent authorities: US, EPO,
and PCT (World Intellectual Property Organization).
- US patents (full text) available
back to 1836 - present.
- EP-A documents available
from December 20, 1978 - present.
- PCT applications available
from October 19, 1978 - present.
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- Subscription
Required.
- Coverage: Search bibliographic
information on all US patents from 1975 to present
- Features: Searching can
be done on the entire database, a selected five year period,
and for newly issued patents by state or country in addition
to classification, etc.
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esp@cent Europe's Network
of Patent Databases
- Coverage: Search for published patent applications
from around the "worldwide" patent information - (30
million documents) and Japan mostly back to 1970. Search also
for patent applications in their original languages published
in the past two years.
- Free Services: Users may search using simple text,
patent application numbers or by company name. Search results
include the bibliographic data and an English-language abstract
for each document published. If they are available, drawings
and the full text of the documents are provided online.
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- Subscription
Required. Sign
up online for
STN Easy.
- Commercial
Services: No subscription fees. Pay
a low fee ($2.00) for each search you perform, with an additional
charge for each answer you display. Invoices are mailed monthly.
- Features: A web-based
search interface, allows you to use the Patent Lookup tab, an
intuitive, patetn-specific search tool that allows for quick,
simple lookup of patent information. Only patent-oriented databases,
categories and search fields are available. Access to the full
text of a patent is available through the ChemPort Connection.
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DOE
General Council Patent Database
- Coverage:
Search, retrieve, and browse hypertext bibliographic citations
of patents and patent applications owned by DOE or its contractors
or assignees. Associated full text is available for some current
patent applications.
- Free
Services: This site is completely free.
- Features:
There are basic and advanced search modes offering a variety
of searching and sorting options.
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USPTO
Trademark Information
- Coverage:
TESS contains more than 2.9 million pending, registered and
dead federal trademarks.
- Free
Services:
All searching and viewing of existing trademark application
and registration information.
- Features:
The Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) provides
searching and viewing of existing applications and registration
information.
The
Trademark Application and Registration Retrieval (TARR)
system provides status information by searching for a trademark
by its Serial or Registration numbers.
The Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) is
the electronic application process.
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Check
OASIS, the online
catalog for detailed holdings information.
- Official
Gazette of the USPTO. Patents
ORNL Libraries maintain copies of this publication back to 1933
in either print or microform formats.
- Chemical
patents index
This is a comprehensive and detailed index of US patents and
patent reissues granted during the decennial period 1915-1924
inclusive.
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Code
of federal regulations. 37, Patents, trademarks, and copyrights
- Journals
World
patent information [online] (internal use only)
Holdings: WWW 19(1997)-
- Books:
There are 102 titles in OASIS related to
patents. The most recent ones are:
The
digital dilemma: intellectual property in the information age
[online]
National Research Council
Call Number: KF2979.N372x 2000
The techonology transfer
system: inventions: marketing, licensing, patenting, setting,
practice, management, policy
Muir, Albert E.
Call Number: HC110.T4.M84 1997
Patent
searching for librarians and inventors
Wherry, Timothy Lee
Call Number: T210.W44 1995
Successful
patents and patenting for engineers and scientists
Lechter, Michael A.
Call Number: KF3114.8.E54S83 1995
The
inventor's desktop companion: the guide to successfully marketing
and protecting your ideas
Levy, Richard C.
Call Number: T339.L384 1995
Patent
fundamentals for scientists and engineers
Gordon, Thomas T.
Call Number: T339.G67 1995
Licensing
technology: drafting and negotiating agreements
Byrne, Noel
Call Number: KF1530.B97x 1994
Inventing
& patenting sourcebook: how to sell and protect your ideas
Levy, Richard C. Piccirelli, Annette
Call Number: T339.L38 1992
An
introduction to U.S. patent searching: the process
Ardis, Susan
Call Number: T210.A73 1991
Patent
it yourself
Pressman, David
Call Number: T 339P737x 1991
Intellectual
property rights: US companies' views on patent law harmonization
Mendelowitz, A.I.
Call Number: GAO/T-GGD--94-11
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