Patents & Trademarks

Patents & Trademark searching, U.S. and International

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General Information Concerning Patents
Basic guide to patent information from the U.S. Patent Office.

Gale eBooks (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Full Text reference online. Search keyword "patents" or "intellectual property."

Introduction to United States Government Information Sources
Print: JPL 3rd Floor J83 .M665
Patents and Trademarks are covered in Chapter 10, Intellectual Property.
Patents, Copyrights & Trademarks for Dummies
E-book 2008 2nd edition
Patent Tutorials
Tutorial links from the McKinney Engineering Library at UT-Austin explaining the basics of patent and trademark searching.
Prior Art Search
STOPfakes.gov
Intellectual property issues for small businesses.
Tapping the Government Grapevine: The User-Friendly Guide to U.S. Government Information Sources
Print: JPL 3rd Floor J38 .R63 1998
Patents, Trademarks and Copyright are discussed in Chapter 7.
Mastering United States Government Information : Sources and Services
by Christopher Brown
See Intellectual Property - Chapter 15
E-book
USPTO Annual Report
Annual Reports of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Patent Indexes (Historic) (HathiTrust)
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents from 1842-1921 and Index of patents issued from the United States Patent Office from 1920-1974