General Overviews, FAQs, and Filing Patents
Frequently Asked Questions about Patents (USPTO)
Frequently Asked Questions about Design Patents
General Information About Plant Patents
General Information Concerning Patents (American Bar Association)
General Information About Patents (Oppedahl & Larson LLP)
General Information Concerning Patents (USPTO)
Guide to Filing a Design Patent Application
Guide to Filing a Utility Patent Application (Non-Provisional Patents)
How to Get a Patent
Information on Business Method Patents
Patent Law for Non-Lawyers--Patenting Biotechnology (DNApatentlaw.com)
Patents and Trademarks Research Guide (Rutgers University Libraries)
Provisional Patent Application
PCT Applicant's Guide
Patent Cafe - A site for inventors
Patent Law Links
Plant Variety Protection - An alternative to patents for plant protection (USDA)
Research Guide on Patents (University of North Texas Libraries)
United States Patent and Trademark Office Website
USPTO FAQ Page
USPTO Forms
Patent Examination Standards and Law
- Acceptable Identification of Goods & Services Manual
- Legal Analysis of the Examination Guidelines for Computer-Related Inventions
- Manual of Patent Examination Procedure (MPEP)
- Revised Interim Utility Guidelines Training Materials
- Design Search Code Manual
- Manual of Classification of Patents - Index (UNC MetaLab)
- Patentability Regulations for Computer-Related Inventions
- Training Materials Directed to Business, Artificial Intelligence, and Mathematical Processing Applications
Includes the examination manual for computer-related inventions
Legislation, Cases, and Regulations
- Patent Laws from Title 35 of the U.S. Code (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
- PatentlyO
- USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
- United States Code - Title 35 - Patent Act
- Regulations for filing a design patent
- USPTO Office of General Counsel
Includes links to decisions of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board.
Patent Searching
- Official Gazette NoticesFrom the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
- Patent and Trademark Resource CentersThese 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.
- Patent Public SearchFrom the US Patent & Trademark Office.
- Patent Searching TutorialFrom the Engineering Library at the University of Texas at Austin.
- USPTO Patent DatabasesIncludes full page images of patents issued since 1790, the full text of atents issued since 1976, and patent applications published since 15 March 2001
Trademark Laws and Procedures
Trademark Databases & Registration
- Trademark SoundexContains trademarked sounds (technically called "Sound Marks").
Trademark Resources
- Articles on Trademarks, Trade Dress, Trade Names, and Service Marks (Findlaw)
- Articles on Cybersquatting & Domain Names (Findlaw)