U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Searchable site of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Search the Patent Full-Text & Image Databases page for full-text since 1976 and full-page images since 1790 as well as patent applications since March 15, 2001. The Trademark Database provides comprehensive information on federal registered and pending trademarks as well as laws, manuals, patent & trademark depository libraries, applications and more.

Canadian Patent & Trademark Database
"This database lets you access over 75 years of patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and study more than 1,400,000 patent documents." Patent documents are available from 1920 to the present and text of the abstracts and claims back to 1978. Updated regularly. From the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO).

Intellectual Property Network (Delphion)
Access to the bibliographic data and text of all claims of all patents issued by the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) from 1971 to present. Updated approximately every two weeks. In addition, you can get images from 1974 to present. Now includes databases of patents from the European Patent Office EPA and EPB patents and World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) PCT text and images.

InventNET - The Inventor's Network
Run by a nonprofit group of independent inventors, this site has advice on everything from patent law and software to marketing your invention: classified ads, a newsletter, an online forum, Web links, and inventions for sale.

LSU Patent & Trademark Resources
A directory of links related to information on intellectual property, patents, inventions, and trademarks, organized under simple subject headings compiled by the Louisiana State University libraries.

Patent Cafe
An all-encompassing site for intellectual property, patent, and invention resources. Includes links to how-to information; patent searching; invention groups; government agencies; and famous, women, and black inventors. There are chat groups, magazines, and book sources. The Inventive Kids Cafe includes science experiments and projects, as well as inventor-related resources. Searchable.

Patent Law Links
Comprehensive site for all aspects of patent work. Includes links to case law, statutes and regulations, U.S. Patent Office, patent drawing services, patent law firms, patent search firms, document retrieval firms, intellectual property law and technical schools, professional associations and journals, and legal search engines.

Trademarks
Learn about marks; order trademark applications on-line; explore trademark links; or follow related links to copyright, unfair competition, computer, multimedia, advertising, international trade, and trade secret law.

	Debbie Celia, Reference Librarian
	Tel: 203-291-4849	E-mail: dcelia@westportlibrary.org

Last update: 12/08