Research Guides: Intellectual Property: Patents

These libraries contain resources for 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.

Patent Search Services

From the US Patent & Trademark Office.

Patent Searching Tutorial

From the Engineering Library at the University of Texas at Austin.

SciFinder Scholar
In addition to Chemical Abstracts and MEDLINE, SciFinder Scholar contains indexed patent records (available online within 2 days and indexed within 27 days) from nine major patent offices worldwide, including Canada, France, Germany, the European Patent Office, the United Kingdom, Japan, Russia, the U.S., and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
WKU users must construct their own IDs (usernames) and passwords for access the first time only from on campus by clicking here to register.

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

USPTO Search Collection

Google Patent Search

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

United States Code - Title 35 - Patent Act

Regulations for filing a design patent

USPTO Office of General Counsel
(includes links to decisions of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board)