Entrepreneurship Clinic Resources: Patents

Searchable database of resources. Practice areas available include Patent Counseling & Transactions, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, IP and IT in Corporate Transactions. Materials include:

Covers different areas of IP practice and many types of practice materials, including:

The official manual used by patent examiners, this manual provides a useful resource for practitioners to determine how the USPTO will evaluate a patent application, including the rules and considerations examiners much consider for each type of patent and each element of patentability.

Search by keyword, or set field name, coverage from 1790-present.

Search by keyword, patent number, invenor or assignee name, date, language and even country.

Similar to USPTO's patent search engine, this database allows searching by: keyword, date, topical area (i.e. chemical engineering etc.). Coverage from 1963-present.

Search by a number of filters to find assignment of patent rights. Inlcudes date of assignment, invenor and assignee.

Published once a week, this USPTO publication lists all granted patents from that week. A drawing and bibliographic information is also provided for each entry.