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Patents

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • Search Patents and Published Applications
  • Index to the U.S. Patent Classification
  • Classification tools
  • Conducting a Patent Search: The 7-Step Strategy
  • Patents Search Templates
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries
    
    
• Google Patent Search
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Patents.com
  
  
• Pat2Pdf.org - a free patent search tool. Patents are available in PDF format.
  
  
• European Patent Office - esp@cenet
  
  
• Japan Patent Office
  
  
• Other Intellectual Property Offices

Trademarks

• Trademark Information - McKinney Engineering Library

Tutorials

• Patent Searching - McKinney Engineering Library
  • Guide to Patent Searching - information about patent searching and link to additional tutorials.
    
    
• Patent Search Tutorial - Penn State University
  
  
• Patents and Patentability - University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
  
  
• Patent Searching - University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
  
  
• U.S. Patent Statistics Guide - McKinney Engineering Library
  
  
• Anatomy of a U.S. Patent Document - Queen's University Engineering and Science Library
  
  
• Patent Primer Tutorial - University of Southern California
  
  
• Online Intellectual Property Training Module - free online IPR Training Module to learn about evaluating, protecting, and enforcing your intellectual property rights.
  

Video Tutorials

• How to Conduct a Preliminary U.S. Patent Search: A step by step strategy - USPTO (36 minutes)
  
  
• An introduction: Why search for patents? What is a patent? MIT (5:30)

More resources

• DNA Patent Database - Georgetown University
  
  
• Information For Inventors - McKinney Engineering Library
  
  
• Intellectual Property Information (Copyright) - McKinney Engineering Library
  
  
• The Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) - University of Texas at Austin
  
  
• Patent Statistics - USPTO
  
  
• U.S. Patent Number Guide - Queen's University Engineering and Science Library
  
  
• Patent and Trademark Library Association - handout central

Full-Text Resources

• Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents - Hathi Trust Digital Library, University of Michigan
  
  
• Index of Trademarks issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office - Hathi Trust Digital Library, University of Michigan

Obtaining Copies of Patents

Full text images of U.S. patents, including drawings, issued from 1790 to the present can be viewed and printed from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office web site. Please note that you must install a TIFF viewer before you can see the full text patent images from this site. 

More printing/downloading options (html, PDF):

• Patent Lens - Search data from the World Intellectual Property Organization, European Patent Office, U.S. Patent Office, and the Australian Patent Office.
• PatentScope - search international patent applications
• Google Patents - US patents
• pat2pdf
• Guide to Downloading Patent Copies (PDF, TIFF) - the Invent Blog