McKinney Engineering Library Patents and Trademarks

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Google Patent Search - The power of Google applied to U.S. patents.
FreePatentsOnline.com - offers many of the same search features as the USPTO site, but with an easier-to-use design and with the patents displayed as PDFs. The PDFs allow downloading or printing of the whole document. Create an account to best utilize the site.
Patents.com - New as of late 2008, a patent database with an IP exchange portal. U.S. and European patents are promised; search options are still under development.
Pat2Pdf.org
Obtaining Copies of Patents
U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries
European Patent Office - esp@cenet
Japan Patent Office
Other Intellectual Property Offices

DNA Patent Database - Georgetown University
How to Read a Patent - Queen's University Engineering and Science Library
Information For Inventors - McKinney Engineering Library
Intellectual Property Information (Copyright) - McKinney Engineering Library
Office of Technology Licensing and Intellectual Property - University of Texas at Austin
Patent and Trademark Library Association - handout central
Patent Statistics - USPTO
U.S. Patent Number Guide - Queen's University Engineering and Science Library
Annual report of the Commissioner of Patents (1845-1971 pt.2) ( full-text) - Hathi Trust Digital library, University of Michigan
Index of trademarks issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office - ( full-text) Hathi Trust Digital library, University of Michigan