Web Sources for Conducting Patent Searches

We have already identified several very good Web resources for searching information related to patents and trademarks. The following list also identifies additional resources.

  1. United States Patent and Trademark Office, homepage (http://www.uspto.gov) links to all of the USPTO sites and search engines. Since it can often be rather difficult to navigate, some of the sites more useful to novice searchers are linked below.

  2. General Information about Patents (http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/index.html) is a table of contents to the information that the USPTO site provides about patenting.

  3. Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program homepage (http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/ptdl/index.html ...

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