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Patent Information

CSUEB Library is not a Patent & Trademark Depository Library, with access to Classification Definitions, CASSIS, or the PTO Weekly Gazette. CSUEB Library does, however, provide the CSUEB community with access to patents via Lexis-Nexis, as well as via the following Web resources. Click on these links to find out more about:

General Information about Patents
Patent Search Aids
Patent Searching Tutorials & Strategies
Searchable Patent Databases
Foreign Patent Information
Consulting a Librarian/Subject Specialist about your topic
Library Classes on using electronic resources and the Web

For general books on patents, do a subject search for patents in HAYSTAC, the Library catalog.

General Information about Patents

What Is a Patent?
Glossary of Patent Terms
What Can Be Patented?
Novelty and Other Conditions for Obtaining a Patent
Who May Apply for a Patent?
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Homepage
Patent & Trademark Depository Library Program
Patent Laws
Patent Attorneys and Agents Registered to Practice before the PTO
Treaties & Foreign Patents
Famous United States Patents
Wacky Patent of the Month, see also Pretty Strange Patents

 


Patent Search Aids


Patent Searching Tutorials & Strategies

Patent Resources on the Internet Patent Searching Tutorial Patent Searching on the Internet a tutorial
Web Patent Searching Tutorial: Search by Patent Number Patent Search Worksheet for Subject of Invention Searching How to Identify and Obtain Patents

Searchable Patent Databases

Lexis-Nexis available to CSUEB students only. Select Legal and then Patents. covers U.S. patents from 1971. USPTO Web Patent Database coverage dates from 1976. IBM Patent Server searching is free, downloading full text is not. covers U.S. patent descriptions and images from 1973.
PatentMiner free searching of patents from 1970 to present. images.  MicroPatent's Patent Web selected U.S. and Japanese patents. first pages free; full-text for fee. Patent Database Comparison Table
Biotechnology Patents and New Technologies full text since 1994. Chemical Patents Plus searching and display of abstracts are free. full text U.S. patent documents from 1971, patent page images from 1993, and JAVA-rotateable 3D chemical structures. Software Patent Institute's Database of Software Technologies

Foreign Patent Information

World Intellectual Property Organization PCT Database WIPO Country Codes Introductory Manual to the International Patent Classification
European Patent Office: Patent Information on the Internet esp@cenet free patent searching. from the European Patent Office. Trilateral Web Site
Japanese Patent Office homepage Canadian Patent Database Australian Patents Database

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