Patents
A guide to help ASU students find patent information including what is a patent, the different sections of a patent, how to do a prior art search, where to find statistics and other sources of patent information.
Where to Find Patent Information
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- ABOR Policy on Intellectual Property
- Appeals, Court Cases & Interferences
- Appeals & Interferences (USPTO Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences)
- Applications Database (AppFT)
- Applying for a Patent
- Assignments
- Attorneys & Agents
- Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE)
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- Country Codes
- Corrections
- Description
- Certificates of Correction file
- Correction Procedures (MPEP Section 1400)
- Coverage by Country (Espacenet)
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- No entries
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- Espacenet Tutorials
- Expired Utility Patents
- Patent Maintenance Fees database
- PAIR database
- Extended Patents
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- Famous Inventors, Inventions & Discoveries
- Fees
- First Action Estimator (how long it will take before the USPTO starts working on your application)
- Forms
- Frauds & Scams
- USPTO: Independent Inventor Resources
- FTC (Federal Trade Commission)
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- Help
- Help from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Phone Contact Information Page
- Inventors & Entrepreneurs Resources
- Invention Assistance Center
- Frequently Asked Questions (General)
- Frequently Asked Questions (Patents)
- Additional FAQs on the USPTO Web Site
- General Information Concerning Patents
- Attorneys and Agents with Licenses to Practice Before the USPTO
- Help from Nolo Press(publisher of self-help legal books)
- Help from Local Inventor Groups
- The Inventors Association of Arizona (IAA) is a non-profit organization formed to educate, support and provide a centralized source of information for inventors at all levels
- Help about Invention Promotion Firms
To better determine whether or not invention promotions firms are legitimate, first consult the following sites: - Help from Miscellaneous Sources:
- About.com: Inventors
- Ask the Inventors
- Patenting Art and Entertainment
- Patents and Property: Words, Words, Words (American Chemical Society)
- American Chemical Society, Committee on Patents and Related Matters
- What Every Chemist Should Know About Patents 3rd edition 2002, and 2006 supplement. (American Chemical Society)
- Help from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- History of Inventions
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- Intellectual Property Offices (worldwide list)
- Inventing the Future - An Introduction to Patents for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (WIPO)
- Invention Assistance Center
- Inventor Resources
- Issued Patents database (PatFT)
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- No entries
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- Kind Codes (EPO)
- Kind Codes (USPTO)
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- Maintenance Payments for Utility Patents
- Patent Maintenance Fees database
- PAIR database
- Manual of Patent Classification
- Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP)
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- Notices of Suit for Patents and Trademarks filed with the USPTO
- Number Ranges
What patent numbers were issued for each year.
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- No entries
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- PAIR (Patent Application Information Retrieval) database (Public version)
- Patent Application database
- Patent Assignments database
- Patents Granted/Issued database
- Patent Pendency
- First Action Estimator (how long it will take before the USPTO starts working on your application)
- Prediction Tool (how many future patents are expected for a particular technology)
- Patent Numbers
- USPTO
- Design Patents Missing in FULL TEXT format
- Patents Missing in IMAGE format
- Plant Patents Missing in FULL TEXT format
- Reissue Patents Missing in FULL TEXT format
- SIRs Missing in FULL TEXT format
- Utility Patents Missing in FULL TEXT format
- Withdrawn Patent Numbers (Numbers which do not correspond to an issued patent)
- USPTO
- Patent Term Calculator (downloadable software)
- PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) Information
- Process for Obtaining a Utility Patent
- Provisional Patent Application
- Payment history for utility patents (PAIR database)
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- No entries
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- Search for Patents (PatFT=Issued Patents and AppFT= Application databases)
- Statistics
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- Tools for managing patent data
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