Patents

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • Search Patents and Published Applications
  • Index to the U.S. Patent Classification
  • Classification tools
  • Patents Search Templates
  • The Seven-Step Strategy
    
    
• Google Patent Search - The power of Google applied to U.S. patents.
• FreePatentsOnline.com - offers many of the same search features as the USPTO site, but with an easier-to-use design and with the patents displayed as PDFs. The PDFs allow downloading or printing of the whole document.  Create an account to best utilize the site.
• Patents.com - New as of late 2008, a patent database with an IP exchange portal.  U.S. and European patents are promised; search options are still under development.
• Pat2Pdf.org
• Obtaining Copies of Patents
  
  
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries
• European Patent Office - esp@cenet
• Japan Patent Office
• Other Intellectual Property Offices

Trademarks

• Trademark Information - McKinney Engineering Library

Tutorials

• Patent Searching - McKinney Engineering Library
• International Intellectual Property Searching - McKinney Engineering Library
• U.S. Patent Statistics Guide - McKinney Engineering Library
• How to Conduct a Preliminary U.S. Patent Search: A step by step strategy - USPTO (36 minutes)
• Schreyer Business Library's Patent Search Tutorial - Penn State University
• Patent Research Tutorial - University of Central Florida
• Conducting a Patent Search: The 7-Step Strategy - USPTO
• Patent and Trademark Searching Video- Dave Morrison, University of Utah's Marriott Library (1:29)
• MIT Video Tutorials:
  • An introduction: Why search for patents? What is a patent? (5:30)
  • What does a patent look like? (2:25)
  • How to search for patents (7:50)
  • Which search tool should I use? Why shouldn't I just use Google? (5:36)

More resources

• DNA Patent Database - Georgetown University
• How to Read a Patent - Queen's University Engineering and Science Library
• Information For Inventors - McKinney Engineering Library
• Intellectual Property Information (Copyright) - McKinney Engineering Library
• Office of Technology Licensing and Intellectual Property - University of Texas at Austin
• Patent and Trademark Library Association - handout central
• Patent Statistics - USPTO
• U.S. Patent Number Guide - Queen's University Engineering and Science Library
• Annual report of the Commissioner of Patents (1845-1971 pt.2) ( full-text) - Hathi Trust Digital library, University of Michigan
• Index of trademarks issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office - ( full-text) Hathi Trust Digital library, University of Michigan