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General Overviews and FAQs | Legislation, Cases, and Regulation
Patent Searching
| Filing a Patent Application | Patent Examination Standards

Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries contain the resources to assist inventors with conducting both a preliminary patent or novelty search and a Federal trademark search. In this region, the closest USPTO depository libraries are the Louisville Free Public Library and the Stevenson Science & Engineering Library at Vanderbilt University.

General Overviews and FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions about Patents (USPTO) General Information About Plant Patents
General Information Concerning Patents (American Bar Association) Information on Business Method Patents
Patent Law for Non-Lawyers--Patenting Biotechnology (DNApatentlaw.com) Patents and Trademarks Research Guide (Rutgers University Libraries)
Research Guide on Patents (University of North Texas Libraries) United States Patent and Trademark Office Website
Frequently Asked Questions about Design Patents General Information About Patents (Oppedahl & Larson LLP)
General Information Concerning Patents (USPTO) Patent Cafe - A site for inventors
Patent Law Links Plant Variety Protection - An alternative to patents for plant protection (USDA)
USPTO FAQ Page  

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Legislation, Cases, and Regulation

Patent Laws from Title 35 of the U.S. Code (Cornell Legal Information Institute) PatentlyO
USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences Patent Regulations from Title 37

Regulations for filing a design patent

United States Code - Title 35 - Patent Act
USPTO Office of General Counsel
(includes links to decisions of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board)
 

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Patent Searching

Community of Science - Search U.S. Patents Patent Search Services (U.S.P.T.O.)
SurfIP USPTO Patent Databases - Includes full page images of patents issued since 1790, the full text of atents issued since 1976, and patent applications published since 15 March 2001
Official Gazette Notices Patent Searching Tutorial
USPTO Search Collection  

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Filing a Patent Application

Guide to Filing a Design Patent Application How to Get a Patent
Provisional Patent Application Guide to Filing a Utility Patent Application (Non-Provisional Patents)
PCT Applicant's Guide USPTO Forms

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Patent Examination Standards

Acceptable Identification of Goods & Services Manual Legal Analysis of the Examination Guidelines for Computer-Related Inventions
Manual of Patent Examination Procedure (MPEP) Revised Interim Utility Guidelines Training Materials
Design Search Code Manual Manual of Classification of Patents - Index (UNC MetaLab)
Patentability Regulations for Computer-Related Inventions Training Materials Directed to Business, Artificial Intelligence, and Mathematical Processing Applications - Includes the examination manual for computer-related inventions

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This page maintained by:
Bryan M. Carson
Associate Professor, Library Public Services
bryan.carson@wku.edu

Last updated May 1, 2007

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