Information Resources on Intellectual Property

Patents & Trademarks

• United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Patent & trademark forms
    Manual of Classification and Patent Classification Definitions
• Nevada Inventors Database
  • Find United States patents issued to Nevada residents from the 1860s through 1915. Patents are being added and the site will eventually cover patents issued through 1975.
• CAMBIA Patent Lens
  • Links to patent documents from the European and United States patent offices and filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), in an integrated and searchable format.
• Esp@cenet
  • Selected European and Japanese patents are freely available here as .pdf files.
• FreshPatents.com
  • Links to the latest published U.S. patent applications (updated weekly).
• Intellectual Property Digital Library
  • Provides access to the Journal of Patent Associated Literature.
• InterNIC
  • Information on Internet domain name registration, including a directory of accredited registrars.
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Legal Office
  • A world-wide system for simplified multiple filing of patent applications.
• Patent Librarian's Notebook
  • A blog with information about patents - worldwide in scope.
• Pat2pdf
  • Delivers U.S. patents in PDF format.
• PubWEST
  • Available to the public only at UNR and other Patent & Trademark Depository Libraries. PubWEST is an expert search tool, including the following components:
    • US Patents (USPT): Full text of most patents issued from 1971 - present; patent number, publication date, and current classification information for all patents 1790 - present; titles of utility patents from 1920 - 1970 are also available in this file.
    • US Optical Character Recognition (USOCR): Scanned, unedited copies of US patents issued between 1920-1970 and those from 1971-1976 missing from the USPT file.
    • Pre Grant Publications (PGP): utility patent applications that have been pending for at least 18 months.
    • European Patents (EPAB): published documents from the European Patent Office (EPO), selected EPO member countries (Switzerland, Germany, France, Great Britain), the US Patent Office, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Starting dates for individual countries vary.
    • Japanese Patents (JPAB): English language abstracts of unexamined Japanese patent applications, starting October, 1976
• State Trademark Information
• Trademark Examination Guide 2-99 for Registration of Internet Domain Names
• United States Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program
  • Includes a directory of Patent & Trademark Depository Libraries, information about services, and other resources.
• World Intellectual Property Organization: Collection of Laws for Electronic Access
  • WIPO-administered treaties & national legislative texts on intellectual property.

Copyright

• Library of Congress Copyright Information
• U.S. Copyright Forms

Electronic Journals on Intellectual Property

• Electronic Journals listed in the Library Catalog