Patents and Trademarks
Patent and Trademark Resource Center Services
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has designated the University of California, Riverside Libraries as a Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC). As a Patent and Trademark Resource Center, the UCR Libraries maintain the entire backfile of U.S utility and design patents on DVD and offer assistance in searching USPTO patent and trademark databases to both the general public and the UC Riverside community. More information on the Patent & Trademark Resource Center Program is available at: http:www.uspto.gov/ptrc.
Location
The Patent and Trademark reference area is on the first
floor of the Science Library.
Directions to UC Riverside and Science
Library
Hours
Patent and trademark collections and computer workstations are available all hours the Science Library is open.
Library hours
Reference
Patent and Trademark reference service is available from Library staff at the Science Library Reference Desk. Those new to patent or trademark searching may make an appointment for individual assistance by phoning the Science Library Reference Desk.
Reference Desk phone number: (951) 827-3316. On campus: 2-3316
Our Library staff are happy to show you how to do your own self-directed patent and trademark searching, however we cannot do patent or trademark searches for you, offer legal advice, or answer questions of a legal nature. Please contact a registered patent attorney or agent for help with specific legal questions about patentability and your application.
Computer workstations
A computer workstation is reserved for patent and
trademark use. From this workstation, access:
(1) USPTO patent and trademark information and public databases
(2) PubWEST,
Patent Office database used by the USPTO's patent examiners
USPTO databases other than PubWEST may also be accessed from public workstations located
throughout the Science Library building.
USPTO Databases and Information
U.S. Trademarks
Basic Facts About Trademarks
Trademark FAQs
U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System :
TESS
International Schedule of Classes of Goods and Services
Design Search Code Manual
Trademark Electronic Application System
(TEAS) Tutorial
Inventor
Resources
Information on trademarks for small businesses
Trademark Search Guides
Conducting a Trademark Search ,
PTRC
USPTO Databases and Information
U.S. Patents
General Information Concerning Patents
A Guide to Filing a Non-Provisional (Utility) Patent Application
Patent FAQs
U.S. Patent Databases
Search U.S. issued patents since 1976 and published applications since 15 March 2001.
Need a TIFF viewer to display patent images.
Patent Classification System
Search tip: After retrieving a
class listing, click the P icon to retrieve patents for that classification code
Inventor Resources
Information on patents for the solo or small business inventor
Patent Search Guides and Tutorials
How to Conduct a Preliminary U.S. Patent Search : A Step by Step
Strategy, PTRC
35-minute narrated slide presentation on patent searching.
7-Step U. S. Patent Search Strategy, PTRC
Searching for U.S. Patents on the Internet, University of Maine
Patent Search Tutorial, University of Texas at Austin
Patent Search Tutorial, Penn State
U.S. Patents tutorial, University of Central Florida
Other Patent web sites
Free Patents Online
Pat2pdf.org
Enter U.S. patent number, and Pat2pdf converts patent TIFF file into a PDF file you can download.
Google Patents
Searchable U.S. patents from 1790s to present.
Includes Search Tips
Inventors Groups
Inventors Forum
Organization of inventors and those who help inventors--based in Orange
County
Inventors Digest
Magazine for inventors
International and Foreign Patents
European Patent Office
Esp@cenet
Search
European Patent, PCT, Japanese, and other worldwide patents.
World
Intellectual Property Office
PatentScope
Intellectual Property Offices
Connect to national and international intellectual
property web sites
Extensive listing of useful patent web sites
Patents: Fogler Library, University of Maine
Article and Information Databases
Databases useful
for finding journal articles and technical reports in prior art searching.
Databases useful for finding company and product
information.
Links marked UCR only can be accessed in the UC Riverside Libraries by the general public; off-campus access is
restricted to UCR faculty, students, and staff.
LexisNexis Academic UCR only
In
legal section:
(1) Full-text law reviews
(2)Text, without drawings, of U.S.patents from 1971 to present. Searchable by title,
keyword, assignee, inventor, patent number, classification, lawyer.
In business section:
Company profiles include brands and
trademarks, recent patents and trademarks, kind of business
Agricola UCR
only
Agricola Free public access
Indexes books, journals, articles, and other
materials in agriculture, animal science, nutrition, soil sciences and agriculture-related fields. UCR only version often connects to full-
text.
BIOSIS UCR only
Citations from
over 6,000 journals, books and conference proceedings in all areas of the life sciences and biology
Compendex UCR only
Indexes engineering
journals, conference proceedings, articles, technical reports and other literature. Often connects to full-text.
Reaxys UCR only
Beilstein and Gmelin. Document citations from organic chemistry journals, 1980-
present; inorganic chemistry journals from 1995-present.
Substances indexed 1772-present.
DOE (U.S. Department of Energy) E-print Network
A gateway to over 27,000 Web sites and databases
worldwide, containing 1.1 million e-prints in basic and applied sciences
DOE (U.S.
Department of Energy) Information Bridge
Full-text technical reports from 1994 to present
DTIC (Defense Technical Information Center)Scientific and Technical Information Network
Citations
of unclassified technical reports; many from 1998 to present available in full text
Hoover's Online UCR only
Business information: companies, products, industries
INSPEC UCR only
Electrical
engineering and computer science
PubMed UCR only
PubMed Free public access
Citations from more than 4,300 international biomedical
journals covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the preclinical sciences. UCR version often connects
to full-text.
Science Accelerator
Searches U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE) research reports and DOE-related resources on energy, science, and technology.
Thomas Register
Info on 650,000 industrial companies; 67,000 categories of industrial products
and services; plus over 20,000,000 CAD drawings and hundreds of searchable product catalogs
Web of Science UCR only
All science
disciplines
Westlaw Campus
Research UCR only
United States federal and state case law, statutory and regulatory materials. Law reviews. Legal encyclopedias.
Zoological
Record UCR only
