Patent Searching For Librarians And Inventors

Presents basic information on patents and their relation to copyrights and trademarks. Profiles seven steps to searching U.S. patents. Appendixes include "Thirty Often Asked Questions and Their Answers for the Amateur Inventor", patent libraries, and informative documents published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Describes what a patent is and what it does, and provides the vocabulary, instructions, and strategies needed to patent search on the Internet.

There's no sense spending countless hours and thousands of dollars on a patent application if someone else has beaten you to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Patent Searching Made Easy is the number one guide to understanding the invention landscape--whether you're looking to turn an idea into protected intellectual property, or just researching the marketplace--while avoiding expensive patent-searching fees.

This unique book explains step-by-step how to use an Internet browser to search out U.S. patents. It discusses how to classify an invention properly, and then find a;; patents that may be relevant.Packed with helpful and money-saving advice, it shows how to: * conduct a full patent search* search patents filed in foreign countries* verify the patent status of ideas submitted to businesses for development* use the fee-based patent search services on the InternetIncludes information on searching the Full-Tex Database on the Patent and Trademark Office's website.

Patent Searching Made Easy. Written by inventor David Hitchcock, this book explains step by step how to use an Internet browser to search U.S. patents. It discusses how to classify an invention properly, and then, using that classification, find all relevant patents issued within that class. Whether browsing infant flotation devices or computerized pet toys, the inventor can quickly tell by searching over the Internet whether he or she is in the running to be the first.

Discover new techniques for researching patents and trademarks! Patent and Trademark Information: Uses and Perspectives addresses an essential yet undervalued and often underused class of scientific and technical information. Library staff, information specialists, corporation heads and administrators, inventors, school faculty, scientists, engineers, and engineering, science and library students will gain valuable insight on historical research, practical applications, and the availability and accessibility of patenting authorities. This book focuses on methods for searching international patents and trademark information for patrons of the library using the Internet, databases, and other sources. This book contains tips and nuts-and-bolts advice from experienced librarians who either practice in patent and trademark depository libraries or are experts in researching patents for library patrons. Their advice will help you navigate decision points and search paths for locating patent and trademark information from state, federal, and international sources. Special features include tables and figures, as well as bibliographies that provide extensive resources for locating additional information. The first half of the book is dedicated to issues involving patents, including: disseminating enemy technical information during World War II basic novelty patent searching in seven steps using patent information for historical genealogical research esp@cenet®Europe’s network of patent databases regional patent systemsa challenge for the international searcher patent data for technology assessmentapplications, patent databases, and retrieval methods The second half of Patent and Trademark Information guides you in searching out trademarks, company and owner names, and databases. An entire chapter is dedicated to searching for trademark and/or company names for each of the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. Another chapter investigates five free international Web-based patent sites.

Whether you're a patent examiner, patent attorney, commercial patent searcher, patent liaison, IP librarian, law professor, or competitive intelligence analyst, you'll find Patent Searching: Tools and Techniques to be just the guide you have been waiting for, with a range of approaches to patent searching that will be useful to you regardless of your technical expertise or role in the intellectual property community.

In 1998 the U.S. Patent Office introduced searchable databases for patents and trademark registrations. Once available only through time-consuming trips to a Patent and Trademark Depository Library, such information now is as near as your PC - if you know how to look for it. Begin with a look through this handy guide. From basic definitions to step-by-step instructions, it offers all the information you need to find patent and trademark information online. Sample web pages illustrate the types of sites you may encounter. Also discussed are the definitions, laws, and application procedures for copyright.