Purpose and Instructions

The purpose of this tutorial is to give users a hands-on, interactive patent searching experience utilizing the United States Patent and Trademark Office's website.

For our purposes the long, narrow area on the left side of the window will display the instructions that will guide you through the tutorial. At the bottom of each set of instructions is a link to the next step of the tutorial. Each of these links is also available at the top of the window; this allows you to move around the tutorial at will instead of sticking to the prescribed order. Finally, the large frame to the right will contain the USPTO website, which is the focus of this tutorial. Please note that the USPTO website is more compatible with Internet Explorer, therefore this tutorial works best with IE.

This tutorial was brought to you by McKinney Engineering Library, The University of Texas Libraries.