Research Guides
Government Sources by Subject: Patents and Trademarks
Starting Points
- Patents and Trademarks, Engineering Library Research GuideStarting points and a link to more information on step-by-step guides to conducting patent or trademark searches using the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) web databases, as well as additional patent and trademark research and information resources, and links to USPTO information for trademark and patent applicants.
- United States Patent and Trademark OfficeAbundant information on patents, trademarks, intellectual property law and policy, and more...
- United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patent Official Gazette and Trademark Official GazetteThe Official Gazette (OG) is the official journal of the USPTO, published weekly on Tuesday, that includes bibliographic information and a representative drawing for each patent granted or trademark published on that issue date. Links to the Official Gazette for Trademarks and the Official Gazette for Patents are provided here.
- Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights CFR title 371996-current available online from the GPO.
1938-current available from HeinOnline (Access for all on-campus; login required from off-campus).
1970-one year ago available in print at the Gallagher Law Library. The most recent print copy can be found in GovPubs reference, call number AE 2.106/3:37
Browse This!
You can browse in Gov Pubs U.S. Stacks for documents from the Patent and Trademark Office using the SuDoc number C 21.
- Patents and TrademarksA sample catalog search in UW Libraries Search (RSS feed via Primo); be sure to look at the LC Subject information for each entry to find further leads.
Autographic Printing
Thomas Edison's drawings from US-Patent 180857 in 1876.
Image courtesy of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, from Wikimedia Commons.