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USPTO Office of General Counsel
Includes links to decisions of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board.
These libraries contain resources for conducting both a preliminary patent or novelty search and a Federal trademark search. In this region, the closest USPTO depository libraries are the Louisville Free Public Library and the Stevenson Science & Engineering Library at Vanderbilt University.
Includes full page images of patents issued since 1790, the full text of atents issued since 1976, and patent applications published since 15 March 2001