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Patents

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office says:
"You can search patents on the web, but you can't do a patent search."

What is a patent?

 

Esp@cenet  (European Patent Office)
Includes patent applications in their original language from The European Patent Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization and patent applications with an English abstract and title from Worldwide (50 countries and regions) and Japan. Includes bibliographic details and where available the abstract, full text and images of a document. Includes the most recent two years.
           Patent Offices of the Member States

FreePatentsOnline- Includes the full text of US patents from number 4000000 to 6857132.  Free downloading in PDF format including patent images.

Google Patent Search
Google Patent Search results come from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). FAQ

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe  (choose Legal Research)  BU
Includes these files:
Patents- Full-text (excluding drawings) of U.S. patents from 1971 to present
Class- Patent Numbers By Classification
Manual- Manual of Classification

SciFinder Scholar Chemical Abstracts  1967+  BU
Use Document Identifer to search by patent number. Use Analyze References or Refine References to limit Research Topic search results to patents.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Patent Full Text and Image Database  Patent full-page images back to 1790. Now searchable in five-year blocks back to 1976, and in one additional block covering the years 1790-1975. The 1790-1975 block contains only patent numbers and current US Classifications (in addition to links to full-page images). Patents prior to 1976 can be searched for only by patent number or current US classification.
        Patent Classification Home  (Search by Class/Subclass or search the Manual of Classification)

        Index to the U.S. Patent Classification System
          
        Frequently-Asked Questions about Patents

        General Information Concerning Patents

        7 Step Strategy for Conducting a Patent Search

        Ordering Copies of U.S. Patents & Trademarks

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Trademarks

What is a trademark?

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

        US PTO Trademark Electronic Search System   (TESS)
       
        Basic Facts about Trademarks

       Frequently Asked Questions About Trademarks

       Trademark Electronic Business Center

Trademark-based domain-name issues:
CleverDot- Domain Registration
Domains.com - an official provider of Internet Domain Name Registration Services, offering registration of domain names in the .COM, .NET, .INFO, .BIZ, and .ORG top level domains.
Domain Names and Trademarks
        Harvard Law School- Berkman Center for Internet & Society- Intellectual Property in Cyberspace
GoDaddy.com- Search, register, renew or transfer a domain name.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers  (ICANN)
        Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy
NetworkSolutions.com- Search, register, renew or transfer a domain name.
Register.com- Search, register, renew or transfer a domain name.

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Patent and Trademark Links

Boston University:
BU Office of Technology Development
         Patent FAQ
BU Patent Policy/Charles River Campus
BU Patent Policy/Medical Center (MS Word document)
BU Law Library Intellectual Property Research Guide
         Patent Law
         Trademark Law
 
Other Links:
Boston Public Library - Patent and Trademark Information
The Boston Public Library has the largest patent collection in New England. This collection is housed in the Government Documents Department. The collection includes US patents from 1790 to the present, British patents from 1617 to 1994, and German patents from l877 to 1938, as well as patent and trademark journals. All of the research materials needed to search U.S. patents and trademarks are available.
Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program

British LibraryPatents at the British Library
Canadian Intellectual Property Office
        Canadian Patent Database
        Canadian Trade-Mark Database
European Patent Office
FindLaw.com- Intellectual Property Patents / Trademarks
Inventor's Handbook (Lemelson-MIT Prize Program)
Japan Patent Office
        Industrial Property Digital Library-   including the
        Patent Abstracts of Japan (PAJ)
nolo.com's Legal Encyclopedia-
        Patents / Trademarks / Domain Names / Copyrights
Patent Attorneys and Agents Registered to Practice before the USPTO
UK Intellectual Property  (Copyright, Designs, Patents and Trade Marks)
US Copyright Office  (Library of Congress)
       Copyright Basics
       What is a Copyright?

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
       Intellectual Property Digital Collections


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