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This guide lists sources of information on patents, trademarks, and copyright. The page is focused on U.S. intellectual property (IP), but includes selected information on non-U.S. IP law. If you have a question, please contact the librarian by using the information on the right.
1915 patent drawing for a rotoscope (source: Wikimedia Commons)
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- Intellectual Property PolicySection 6,507 of UNR's Administrative Manual.
Copyright
- U.S. Copyright OfficeInformation about copyright for textual, graphic, and audiovisual media, fees & more.
- U.S. Copyright Forms
Journals on Intellectual Property
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Patents and Trademarks
- CAMBIA Patent LensLinks to patent documents from the European and United States patent offices and filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), in an integrated and searchable format.
- Esp@cenetSelected European and Japanese patents are freely available here as .pdf files.
- FreshPatents.comLinks to the latest published U.S. patent applications (updated weekly).
- Nevada Inventors DatabaseFind United States patents issued to Nevada residents from the 1860s through 1915. Patents are being added and the site will eventually cover patents issued through 1975.
- Pat2pdfDelivers U.S. patents and published patent applications in PDF format.
- Patent and Trademark Forms
- Patent and Trademark Resource CentersLibraries around the U.S. providing information and referral on patents and trademarks.
- Patent Classification Tools
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Legal OfficeA world-wide system for simplified multiple filing of patent applications.
- Patent Librarian's NotebookA blog with information about patents - worldwide in scope.
- State Trademark Information
- TMIN, the Trademark Information NetworkShort, authoritative videos on applying for U.S. trademark registration and maintaining existing registrations. Produced by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
- Trademark Examination Guide 1209.03(m) for Registration of Internet Domain Names
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
- WIPO GoldA gateway to WIPO’s global collections of searchable IP data.
- WIPO LexNational laws and treaties on intellectual property of WIPO, WTO and UN Members.
PubWEST: Advanced Patent Searching
Available to the public only at UNR and other Patent & Trademark Resource Centers, PubWEST is an expert search tool, including the following components:
§ US Patents (USPT): Full text of most patents issued from 1971 - present; patent number, publication date, and current classification information for all patents 1790 - present; titles of utility patents from 1920 - 1970 are also available in this file.
§ US Optical Character Recognition (USOCR): Scanned, unedited copies of US patents issued between 1920-1970 and those from 1971-1976 missing from the USPT file.
§ Pre Grant Publications (PGP): utility patent applications that have been pending for at least 18 months.
§ European Patents (EPAB): published documents from the European Patent Office (EPO), selected EPO member countries (Switzerland, Germany, France, Great Britain), the US Patent Office, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Starting dates for individual countries vary.
§ Japanese Patents (JPAB): English language abstracts of unexamined Japanese patent applications, starting October, 1976.
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